Wed September 11 2013
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05:10 PM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News
What do you think about the new look? Feel free to join the ongoing discussion. If you are interested in the specs and if you don't mind them being just unconfirmed leaks, check out these related threads:
Thanks to Mobilereader daffy4u for the heads-up! |
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04:17 PM by chaley in E-Book Software | Calibre Companion
This prerelease has the following changes:
Related: Changelog and FAQ |
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08:53 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News
About selling Nook:
Source: Publishers Weekly Translation: you can't sell if no one is buying. Odd to see the shareholder fixation on dividends: the company is (maybe) six months from Chapter 11 and they want to drain cash from it? Related: B&N reports $87m loss for Q1 2014, NOOK business plunges 20% (image: Mike Kalasnik / Flickr) |
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08:10 AM by Sydney's Mom in E-Book General | General Discussions
Anyway, since I was a kid, I read before bed. I remember telling my daughter I felt sorry for her, not being able to enjoy a book, and drift off to sleep. When I got my kindle, it was even better! About a year ago, I got a big Kindle Fire because I wanted to read some Walking Dead graphic novels. Anyway, I found the white letters on black background setting, and put my PW aside. My insomnia got worse, but I attributed it to working from home. Instead of getting up at 7:30 in order to get to the office for a 9:00 call, I can get up at 8:45. Two days ago, I was having trouble with my fire, and wanted to finish the book I had started (Argo), so I picked up my PW. I read for about half hour, and I was sleepy. Last night, same thing happened. I really think the people talking about the backlit screens keeping you up are right. I have been taking an Ambien if I wanted to get to sleep quicker than 2 hours after I got in bed. This week, haven't had to think about taking a pill. Has anyone else noticed a difference reading in bed with a fire versus a PW? I ordered the new PW this morning. Image by Justin Pickard via Flickr |
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Tue September 10 2013
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09:19 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News
Link to the review: here Related: Kobo Reader |
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08:43 AM by MarekGibek in Kobo Reader | Kobo Developer's Corner
It's fantastic that you guys were able to solve most of your problems yourself and even managed to run my sample image on a Kobo Mini (fixing bootloader)!! Now I'm back with the necessary kernel changes needed to install Debian on your Kobos: https://github.com/marek-g/kobo-kernel-2.6.35.3-marek The only changes needed to run X11 are related to the eInk display driver and keyboard driver. Inside !Marek/framebuffer-utils folder there are the files to enable and disable eInk's autoupdate mode. You can undo changes for touch driver because:
If you stay with the original touch driver you can use the evdev driver for X11 and still have a working touch and even configure the right mouse button emulation. I was playing with the image posted here and I've found it's nice to:
You can add new software to the menu by editing the awesome.lua config file in the ~/.config folder. I hope that together we will be able to do things like:
Have a good fun, Related: Sample Kobo Debian firmware image |
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07:51 AM by jswinden in E-Book Readers | Apple Devices
Amazon has released what they call a mandatory update of the Kindle app for those who plan to upgrade to iOS 7. This update will prevent the loss of registration information and books, which could occur if you don't update the app before upgrading to iOS 7. Download link: iTunes |
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07:34 AM by AlPe in E-Book Software | Reading and Management
The project has been developed by three students, under my supervision, at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova (Padua), Italy. You can get the APK, the code (MIT license) and some EPUB ebooks featuring parallel texts (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license) from the GitHub public repo: https://github.com/pettarin/epub3reader Screenshots are here: https://github.com/pettarin/epub3rea...SCREENSHOTS.md The app is not production-grade yet, but I think it shows some interesting UI tricks novel or not widely adopted in EPUB reading systems. Please see the README for a discussion. Comments are welcome. |
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