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We’ve carried a few stories about Hoopla Digital before—when we discussed its app adding Chromecast support last year, or when it added e-books in 2014. Hoopla is a digital media streaming...

Last year I switched from an iPad 4 to an iPad mini 4 and wrote about my new tablet as a great writing device. I still feel that way. What I hadn’t anticipated is that...

The nice thing about Android is that it is largely device-agnostic, and the last few revisions of it have been more or less cosmetic. Any version of Android you get from...

Connoisseurs of esoteric books - and who isn't when you can get them for free? - should be delighted by this double treasure. The Voynich Manuscript and Codex Seraphinianus are two...

Two new scientific papers outlining different approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) have both concluded that reading books is the best way to learn human behavior. "Using Stories to Teach Human Values...

Author Cambria Hebert has penned a blistering open letter to Barnes & Noble on her blog, in which she discusses how she’s tried long and hard to get Barnes & Noble...

Given so much time has passed since last year’s uproar, you may have managed to forget all about the controversy around the Sad Puppies Hugo award voting lobby and their slate...

Donald Trump---he who has incited violence at his rallies---isn’t the only billionaire thug in the news. Peter Thiel (photo), the Silicon Valley investor, took umbrage when the Gawker site called him gay, a...

So which is easier to read, at least for me? (1) My $290 Oasis without The Way We Live Now in all bold or (2) my modest 2013 Paperwhite with the same file in boldface? The answer?...

Nate Hoffelder reports at The Digital Reader that Amazon has commissioned a new sans serif font called Ember that will be included on the new Kindle Oasis—though if you’re using a...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.