Sat May 30 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/23 - 05/30 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week: E-Book General - News E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |
Thu May 28 2015
Interesting Kindle Upgrade |
03:39 AM by Waylander in E-Book General | News Saw this in my daily The Passive Voice email: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046678/...at-doesnt-suck Apparently, the update is being rolled out to the actual ereaders later in the summer, so no specific date, but it is coming soon. What does anyone else think? |
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Baen can no longer provide automatic delivery to Kindle by email. |
03:34 AM by gbm in E-Book General | News This was posted on Baen's Bar today.
They have updated the ereader instructions page:
Spoiler:
bernie |
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Wed May 27 2015
June 2015 Book Club Vote |
12:15 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs June 2015 MobileRead Book Club Vote Help us choose a book as the June 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 June 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Spoiler:
• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Goodreads | Amazon.com / Kobo CA / Google Play / Overdrive Spoiler:
• A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Goodreads | Amazon AU / Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US / Audible / Kobo Spoiler:
• Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Google Play US / Kobo US / Overdrive Audio / Overdrive eBook / Waterstones UK Spoiler:
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman Goodreads | Amazon US/ MP3 / WorldCat Spoiler:
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Sat May 23 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/16 - 05/23 |
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 |
Wed May 20 2015
June 2015 Book Club Nominations |
08:07 AM by WT Sharpe in Reading Recommendations | Book Clubs Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for June, 2015. The nominations will run through midnight EST May 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 June is: Award Winners 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. The nominations are now closed. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker Spoiler:
(2) All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Spoiler:
(3) A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Spoiler:
(4) Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs Spoiler:
(5) American Gods by Neil Gaiman Spoiler:
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Tue May 19 2015
Google announces Literata, its new e-book typeface |
04:47 AM by Dopedangel in E-Book General | News Google has announced a new typeface for Google Books: Literata. Replacing Droid Serif as the default typeface for e-books via Google Books, Google says Literata is “perfect for long reads on all devices”. Created in conjunction with TypeFace, Google began work on Literata in April 2014. The goal was a “new book typeface was needed that would provide an outstanding reading experience on a whole range of devices and high resolution screens running different rendering technologies”. |
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Sat May 16 2015
MobileRead Week in Review: 05/09 - 05/16 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Been so busy reading e-books that you haven't had time to keep up on the week's news? Here's some of what you've been missing: E-Book General - News
E-Book General - Reading Recommendations |