Sat July 09 2016
MobileRead Week in Review: 07/02 - 07/09 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week. E-Book Software - Calibre Companion |
Tue July 05 2016
Calibre Companion for iPhone has been started! |
08:31 PM by Steve_Haley in E-Book Software | Calibre Companion Hello everyone, I'd like to announce that Calibre Companion for iPhone has been started. It's been a long time coming! To reintroduce myself, I worked with Chaley on the original Android version a few years ago. We're still a way off from making a public iPhone version, but the community here has been so fantastic in helping us test that we'd like to ask again. Who would like to be an alpha tester? Obviously you'll need an iPhone or iPad. Update: we now have enough people for the initial test, thanks to everyone who volunteered. The plan would be to send a version out in about two weeks. It will contain the basic functions for CC: connecting 'as a wireless device', syncing books, sorting and the grouping drawer, and handing books over to a reader app. Testing the connecting is the main thing we'd like help with, as that took us quite a while to get right last time round. After that initial version, the timeline is a bit more vague. It took chaley and me a few months to get the original CC Android version ready. This time round will be a bit quicker, but it will still take at least a month. So please don't get too excited, even though we do realise you've waited a long time for this. (This time, it will be nice to skip some of the errors we made with the first version. For example, we originally thought people would only want to have 10 to 50 books on their devices at one time. That clearly turned out to be wrong as people now routinely have thousands of books!) Thanks, |
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Sat June 25 2016
MobileRead Week in Review: 06/18 - 06/25 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review If you've been too busy to check out MobileRead this week, check out our usual roundup: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations E-Book Software - Marvin |
Fri June 24 2016
Marvin 3.0 is out |
05:48 AM by kguil in E-Book Software | Marvin Hello Everyone. Marvin 3 is out and available now. You can get it for free + 20% off premium upgrade for a limited time. Marvin Side-by-Side (SxS) is also available now at 20% off for a limited time as well. You can download Marvin 3 for free from here. App Store propagation may be a bit slow, so M3 might not show up right away in searches. Your best bet it to get it from Marvin's website. I hope you enjoy it! Have a lovely week. |
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Wed June 22 2016
New Basic Kindle from Amazon |
09:54 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News Amazon have just announced a new Basic Kindle model. Release date is 7th July in the US and 20th July in the UK. Press release link "The all-new Kindle is 11% thinner and 16% lighter than the previous-generation Kindle, making it easy and comfortable to hold in one hand" It's now available in black and white, but otherwise much the same: 167ppi eInk Pearl screen, no frontlight, 6" screen. old basic Kindle: 169 mm x 119 mm x 10.2 mm, 191 grams Instead of being a bit bigger than the PW3, it's now smaller. There is one other big difference: |
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eBook settlement credit is on the way |
06:59 AM by PatNY in E-Book General | News Today I got this email from B&N:
So others who bought books during the time period covered will also likely receive their credits soon. I'm not even sure what my refund will be, but I'm glad it's arriving soon. --Pat |
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Mon June 20 2016
July 2016 Book Club Nominations |
12:03 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for July, 2016. The nominations will run through midnight EST June 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. The book selection category for July is a Free-For-All! In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? How Does a Book Get Selected? How Many Nominations Can I Make? How Do I Nominate a Book? How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? When is the Poll? The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
(1) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Spoiler:
(2) City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple Spoiler:
(3) The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker Spoiler:
(4) Nothing But Blue Skies by Tom Holt Spoiler:
(5) Something Fresh (original title: Something New) by P.G. Wodehouse Spoiler:
(6) Death in the Dordogne (Bruno Chief of Police Book 1) by Martin Walker Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. |
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Sat June 11 2016
MobileRead Week in Review: 06/04 - 06/11 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Once again, our weekly roundup of highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead: E-Book General - News |