TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » e-readers http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:00:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Want to Compare E-Readers? Try Reader Rocket http://www.teleread.com/tablet/want-to-compare-e-readers-try-reader-rocket/ http://www.teleread.com/tablet/want-to-compare-e-readers-try-reader-rocket/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:16:43 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=83636 Buying an e-reader has become more complex, with several solid options, both in E Ink and tablet-like lines. So how do you choose? That’s where a brand-new, just-launched-yesterday website called Reader Rocket wants to come in. The site is simple. Put two different e-readers head-to-head, and see which one comes out on top. I sat [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/app-review-moon-reader/feed/ 5 Seniors find e-books easier to read than the printed page, study finds http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/seniors-find-e-books-easier-to-read-than-the-printed-page-study-finds/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/seniors-find-e-books-easier-to-read-than-the-printed-page-study-finds/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:21:54 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=78344 The Daily Telegraph ran an interesting story yesterday about an e-book related scientific study undertaken in 2011 by the Media Convergence Research Unit at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. The study received a fair amount of media attention when it was first reported, and if you’ve been following the digital publishing industry for awhile, it might sound familiar. The study’s purpose was [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/seniors-find-e-books-easier-to-read-than-the-printed-page-study-finds/feed/ 2 App Faceoff: Pocket vs. Instapaper http://www.teleread.com/e-readers/app-faceoff-pocket-vs-instapaper/ http://www.teleread.com/e-readers/app-faceoff-pocket-vs-instapaper/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:30:30 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=78315 “Read Later” apps have become more popular as people use their smartphones and tablets on-the-go. I’ve used Pocket for years, and I recently decided to pay for Instapaper because it offered features Pocket does not. I use both, but for different purposes. Pocket is great for short articles, especially ones with images. I’ve set Flipboard up to share with Pocket, and [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/needing-multiple-reading-apps-problem-or-not/feed/ 8 Using Applause as an e-book app rating system http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/using-applause-as-an-e-book-app-rating-system/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/using-applause-as-an-e-book-app-rating-system/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:50:26 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=77820 I recently wrote an article for GadgeTell about a new site, Applause, that ranks iOS and Android apps. I thought it would be fun to run various e-book reading apps through the site, and see how they rated. Here’s the list, organized from high to low: • FBReader: 84 • Moon+ Reader Pro: 81 • [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/post-apocalyptic-reading/feed/ 0 Is E-Reading Bad for Your Brain? http://www.teleread.com/e-readers/the-science-of-the-reading-brain-does-the-brain-process-screen-reading-differently-than-paper-reading/ http://www.teleread.com/e-readers/the-science-of-the-reading-brain-does-the-brain-process-screen-reading-differently-than-paper-reading/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:44:28 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=69835 Dan Bloom is a freelance writer and occasional TeleRead contributor who’s been living in Taiwan for more than 15 years; he’s also an author and a climate activist. Over the weekend, Bloom sent me a link to his most recent piece for The China Post, and because it covers a fascinating and potentially important e-reading topic [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/kindle/52-killer-tricks-for-your-kindle/feed/ 3 Does anyone care about e-reader annotation? http://www.teleread.com/e-readers/does-anyone-care-about-e-reader-annotation/ http://www.teleread.com/e-readers/does-anyone-care-about-e-reader-annotation/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:29:39 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=67631 A thoughtful reader just forwarded me a link to a fairly fascinating mini-essay by Alan Jacobs; it was posted in the technology department of the The Atlantic‘s website a little earlier today. (Thanks Stephen!) Jacobs’ essay presumes to be something of a progress report insofar as e-reading technology is concerned. But from where I stand, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/67246/feed/ 0 Bill Gates rejected touchscreen e-reader prototype in 1998 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/bill-gates-rejected-touchscreen-e-reader-prototype-in-1998/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/bill-gates-rejected-touchscreen-e-reader-prototype-in-1998/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:01:17 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/bill-gates-rejected-touchscreen-e-reader-prototype-in-1998/ Vanity Fair has an article on Microsoft’s corporate culture, and some ways in which that culture crippled innovation at the company. One of those ways is responsible for Microsoft—and Bill Gates in particular—rejecting a prototype for a touchscreen e-reader—in 1998. According to [writer Kurt] Eichenwald, Microsoft had a prototype e-reader ready to go in 1998, [...]

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