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Wed September 30 2015

B&N is Teasing the Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6 as the Next Nook Tablet

10:04 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

If the details B&N posted to their developer pages are correct, the next tablet to bear the Nook brand could be the Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6.

With specs on par with the Fire HD 10, this is much cheaper tablet than the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook and will likely cost a lot less.

The Galaxy Tab E 9.6 has a screen resolution of 800 x 1,280. The model currently being sold by Verizon runs Android 5.1.1 on a 1.3 GHz quad-core Spreadtrum SC7730SE CPU with 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB of storage (plus 128GB microSD card support), and two cameras (2MP and 5MP).

If this is the next Nook device, it will be bigger than the Tab S2 Nook, but not nearly as good. It will also be a lot cheaper. The Verizon model has 4G and costs $329. The B&N model, should it exist, will likely cost in the range of $249 to $279.

The Digital Reader

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Sun September 27 2015

October 2015 Book Club Vote

12:02 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

October 2015 MobileRead Book Club Vote

Help us choose a book as the October 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 October 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each:

The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
Thorne Smith's rapid-fire dialogue, brilliant sense of the absurd, and literary aplomb put him in the same category as the beloved P.G. Wodehouse. The Night Life of the Gods—the madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the Greek gods—is arguably his most sparkling comedic achievement.

Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultrarespectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible.

With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—setting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York—the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful.

Born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892, educated at Dartmouth, THORNE SMITH was an early cohort of Dorothy Parker's. He achieved literary success in 1926 with the publication of Topper and went on to publish nine novels in the next eight years. He earned a passionate following among both critics and readers before his death, at the age of forty-two, in 1934.

The book was made into a Universal Pictures movie in 1935 starring Alan Mowbray.

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
From Amazon:

Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune....

Acclaimed by Henry James as Robert Louis Stevenson's best novel, Kidnapped achieves what Stevenson called, "the particular crown and triumph of the artist...not simply to convince, but to enchant."

Orphaned and penniless, young David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative. But in doing so he will become caught up the greatest and most frightening adventure of his life.

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle (Both versions are illustrated)

Spoiler:
It's part a detective story, part comedy, and part social commentary.

The Virginian by Owen Wister
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through life. The Virginian's unwavering beliefs in right and wrong are soon tested as he tries to prove his love for a woman who cannot accept his sense of justice; at the same time, a betrayal by his most trusted friend forces him to fight against the corruption that rules the land. Still as exciting and meaningful as it was when first published one hundred years ago, Owen Wister's epic tale of a man caught between his love for a woman and his quest for justice exemplifies one of the most significant and enduring themes in all of American literature. With remarkable character depth and vivid passages, "The Virginian" stands not only as the first great novel of American Western literature, but as a testament to the eternal struggle between good and evil in humanity. With an engaging new introduction by Gary Scharnhorst, professor of English at the University of New Mexico, this volume is an indispensable addition to the library of American Western literature.

The Haunted House and Other Horror Stories by Charles Dickens
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:

The Haunted House was first published in 1859. It was part of a collection for the periodical All the Year Round that contained five other authors, but here only the three contributions from Charles Dickens are present.
• "The Mortals in the House"
• "The Ghost in Master B's Room"
• "The Ghost in the Corner Room"

Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
From a review by Joseph Pearce:

[Lord of the World] is truly remarkable and deserves to stand beside Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as a classic of dystopian fiction. In fact, though Huxley's and Orwell's modern masterpieces may merit equal praise as works of literature, they are clearly inferior as works of prophecy. The political dictatorships that gave Orwell's novel-nightmare an ominous potency have had their day. Today, his cautionary fable serves merely as a timely reminder of what has been and what may be again if the warnings of history are not heeded. Benson's novel-nightmare, on the other hand, is coming true before our very eyes.

Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
Zane Grey's very first Western.

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
From Goodreads

'It is very pleasant dinning with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of vignettes, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. Her wry account of rural life is undercut, however, by tragedy in its depiction of such troubling events as Matty's bankruptcy, the violent death of Captain Brown or the unwitting cruelty of Peter Jenkyns. Written with acute observation, Cranford is by turns affectionate, moving and darkly satirical.

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Sat September 26 2015

MobileRead Week in Review: 09/19 - 09/26

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Book General - News

E-Book General - Reading Recommendations


Mon September 21 2015

Oyster shutters its ebook service

08:04 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

Oyster announced late Monday afternoon that it was shutting down its ebook service. Rumors are circulating that the company has been sold, but all we know at this time is that Oyster will be:

taking steps to sunset the existing Oyster service over the next several months. If you are an Oyster reader you will receive an email personally regarding your account in the next few weeks. We look forward to sharing more details soon, but rest assured, your account will continue to operate normally in the meantime.

Not surprised.

Oyster was the smaller than Scribd or KU, and after Scribd faced a couple setbacks this summer, it was obvious that Oyster would soon have problems as well.

The only remaining question is whether someone bought Oyster, and what is going to happen to the tech. Would anyone care to guess?

The Digital Reader

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Sun September 20 2015

October 2015 Book Club Nominations

12:02 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs

Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for October, 2015.

The nominations will run through midnight EST September 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 October is: The Patricia Clark Memorial Library (The MobileRead Library)

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.


Official choices with three nominations each:

(1) The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
Thorne Smith's rapid-fire dialogue, brilliant sense of the absurd, and literary aplomb put him in the same category as the beloved P.G. Wodehouse. The Night Life of the Gods—the madcap story of a scientist who instigates a nocturnal spree with the Greek gods—is arguably his most sparkling comedic achievement.

Hunter Hawk has a knack for annoying his ultrarespectable relatives. He likes to experiment and he particularly likes to experiment with explosives. His garage-cum-laboratory is a veritable minefield, replete with evil-smelling clouds of vapor through which various bits of wreckage and mysteriously bubbling test tubes are occasionally visible.

With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art (if not the timing) of transforming statues into people. And when he practices his new witchery in the stately halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—setting Bacchus, Mercury, Neptune, Diana, Hebe, Apollo, and Perseus loose on the unsuspecting citizenry of Prohibition-era New York—the stage is set for Thorne Smith at his most devilish and delightful.

Born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892, educated at Dartmouth, THORNE SMITH was an early cohort of Dorothy Parker's. He achieved literary success in 1926 with the publication of Topper and went on to publish nine novels in the next eight years. He earned a passionate following among both critics and readers before his death, at the age of forty-two, in 1934.

The book was made into a Universal Pictures movie in 1935 starring Alan Mowbray.

(2) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
From Amazon:

Spirited, romantic, and full of danger, Kidnapped is Robert Louis Stevenson's classic of high adventure. Beloved by generations, it is the saga of David Balfour, a young heir whose greedy uncle connives to do him out of his inherited fortune....

Acclaimed by Henry James as Robert Louis Stevenson's best novel, Kidnapped achieves what Stevenson called, "the particular crown and triumph of the artist...not simply to convince, but to enchant."

Orphaned and penniless, young David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative. But in doing so he will become caught up the greatest and most frightening adventure of his life.

(3) Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle (Both versions are illustrated)

Spoiler:
It's part a detective story, part comedy, and part social commentary.

(4) The Virginian by Owen Wister
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through life. The Virginian's unwavering beliefs in right and wrong are soon tested as he tries to prove his love for a woman who cannot accept his sense of justice; at the same time, a betrayal by his most trusted friend forces him to fight against the corruption that rules the land. Still as exciting and meaningful as it was when first published one hundred years ago, Owen Wister's epic tale of a man caught between his love for a woman and his quest for justice exemplifies one of the most significant and enduring themes in all of American literature. With remarkable character depth and vivid passages, "The Virginian" stands not only as the first great novel of American Western literature, but as a testament to the eternal struggle between good and evil in humanity. With an engaging new introduction by Gary Scharnhorst, professor of English at the University of New Mexico, this volume is an indispensable addition to the library of American Western literature.

(5) The Haunted House and Other Horror Stories by Charles Dickens
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:

The Haunted House was first published in 1859. It was part of a collection for the periodical All the Year Round that contained five other authors, but here only the three contributions from Charles Dickens are present.
• "The Mortals in the House"
• "The Ghost in Master B's Room"
• "The Ghost in the Corner Room"

(6) Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
From a review by Joseph Pearce:

[Lord of the World] is truly remarkable and deserves to stand beside Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as a classic of dystopian fiction. In fact, though Huxley's and Orwell's modern masterpieces may merit equal praise as works of literature, they are clearly inferior as works of prophecy. The political dictatorships that gave Orwell's novel-nightmare an ominous potency have had their day. Today, his cautionary fable serves merely as a timely reminder of what has been and what may be again if the warnings of history are not heeded. Benson's novel-nightmare, on the other hand, is coming true before our very eyes.

(7) Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: BBeB/LRF Books

Spoiler:
Zane Grey's very first Western.

(8) Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub | Kindle

Spoiler:
From Goodreads

'It is very pleasant dinning with a bachelor...I only hope it is not improper; so many pleasant things are!'

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of vignettes, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. Her wry account of rural life is undercut, however, by tragedy in its depiction of such troubling events as Matty's bankruptcy, the violent death of Captain Brown or the unwitting cruelty of Peter Jenkyns. Written with acute observation, Cranford is by turns affectionate, moving and darkly satirical.

The nominations are now closed.

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Sat September 19 2015

MobileRead Week in Review: 09/12 - 09/19

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

It's time again for our roundup on all the stuff we posted on our frontpage this past week.

E-Book General - News

Miscellaneous - Announcements


Thu September 17 2015

Welcome to our newest moderators

08:31 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements

Ladies and gentlemen from far and near,

I'm a little late with the announcement, for which I apologize. It's my greatest pleasure to announce that Blossom, DiapDealer and issybird have joined the ranks of moderators, aka "greenies"!

We hope you are as pleased as we are to see the greening of these members, as we feel they are all excellent choices.

So get your congratulations in here before you can start blaming them for anything that goes wrong around here.

WELCOME!

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Amazon Announces New Fire Tablets & Fire TV

01:57 PM by tubemonkey in E-Book General | News

Amazon just announced their new fall lineup of the Fire Tablets and Fire TV

New Fire Devices --> Key Specs --> Release Date

  • $230 -- Fire HD 10 --> 10.1" ~ 149 ppi ~ 16/32 GB ~ mSD --> 30 Sep
  • $150 -- Fire HD 8 --> 8.0" ~ 189 ppi ~ 8/16 GB ~ mSD --> 30 Sep
  • $100 -- Fire HD 6 --> 6.0" ~ 252 ppi ~ 8/16 GB ~ no mSD --> Oct 2014
  • $100 -- Fire Kids Ed --> 7.0" ~ 171 ppi ~ 8 GB ~ mSD --> 30 Sep
  • $50 -- Fire Tablet --> 7.0" ~ 171 ppi ~ 8 GB ~ mSD ~ 90-day warranty --> 30 Sep

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