Fri October 30 2015
White Kindle touch available in UK |
07:04 AM by Mort1997 in E-Book Readers | Amazon Kindle I was looking at the Amazon site this morning and noticed that the kindle touch is now available in white |
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Tue October 27 2015
November 2015 Book Club Vote |
03:35 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs November 2015 MobileRead Book Club Vote Help us choose a book as the November 2015 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is You may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. We will start the discussion thread for this book on November 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen Spoiler:
• The Train by Georges Simenon Spoiler:
• Skylark by Deszö Kosztolányi Spoiler:
• How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić Spoiler:
• Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto Spoiler:
• Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar Spoiler:
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Spoiler:
• Resurrection by Wolf Haas Spoiler:
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Sat October 24 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 10/17 - 10/24 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Feast your eyes on some of the discussions from this week at MobileRead... E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Mon October 19 2015
November 2015 Book Club Nominations |
11:43 PM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for November, 2015. The nominations will run through midnight EST October 26 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. Book selection category for November is: Foreign (Books originally written in a language other than English) 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? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area.
(1) We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen Spoiler:
(2) The Train by Georges Simenon Spoiler:
(3) Skylark by Deszö Kosztolányi Spoiler:
(4) How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić Spoiler:
(5) Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seicho Matsumoto Spoiler:
(6) Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar Spoiler:
(7) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Spoiler:
(8) Resurrection by Wolf Haas Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. |
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Sat October 10 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 10/03 - 10/10 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Missed some of our big stories this week? Time to catch up: E-Book General - News |
Tue October 06 2015
Waterstones is removing Kindles from stores |
06:14 AM by rjcroy in E-Book General | News This is interesting. It follows another recent new report that paper book sales had increased by nearly 5% in the last year. http://www.thebookseller.com/news/wa...-stores-313827 "“Sales of Kindles continue to be pitiful so we are taking the display space back in more and more shops...We’re not seeing a great deal of people who are buying an e-reader for the first time now,” he said. “People are buying e-reader replacements, but that’s it.” I have been surprised by how few people around me have bought e-readers. It doesn't look like it will get beyond niche in the near future. |
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Sat October 03 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 09/26 - 10/03 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Welcome to another digest entry of MobileRead, where we transform the profound into the bite-sized. E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Fri October 02 2015
October 2015 Special Run-Off Vote |
12:23 PM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs October 2015 Mobile Read Book Club Special Run-Off Vote Since this month's vote resulted in a tie, we are having a Special Run-Off Vote between the two leading candidates. I will not vote in this poll unless my vote is needed to break a tie. This poll will be open for 3 days, and all MobileRead members are invited to participate. This is a visible, multiple-choice poll. We will start the discussion thread for this book on October 20th. Please select from the following two Choices: • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Spoiler:
• The Virginian by Owen Wister Spoiler:
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