Even if an ereader device doesn't include a proper web browser, odds are that if you're shopping on an online ebookstore, there's a way to jump the fence and check out the rest of the Web. Nate at The Digital Reader has been playing around with his new Story HD over the weekend, and he found a way to do just that. My trick involves first entering the Google eBookstore, then going to the Help pages. When you're on the first Help page, look at the links across the top. The one labeled Books will take you to books.google.com, and that...

Earlier this week we posted Andrys Basten's overview of current iriver Story HD reviews from various sources, which together provided a good look at what the device is capable of and how it stacks up to the Kindle, its closest competitor in design. Now Ars Technica has published its own detailed review, along with several close-up photos. Among the good things Ars Technica found: The keyboard is easier to type on than the Kindle's, because the "Symbols menu recasts each letter key as one of the symbols, meaning you don't have to scroll around to include a period, comma, or exclamation...

Occasional TeleRead contributor Robert Nagle passed me a link to a review he lately posted of our founder David Rothman’s small-press-published novel, The Solomon Scandals, which recounts a journalist’s investigation of a scandal in 1970s Washington. Nagle quite liked the book, giving it four stars, though noting that the tone could get a little preachy at times. Ars Technica reports that Google will release the first e-ink reader optimized for Google Books in about a week. The iRiver Story HD, apparently a revision of iRiver’s 2009 Story e-reader, will include wifi and a qwerty keyboard, and cost $139.99 suggested retail when...

A pair of items about e-book readers that aren’t the big three (or, considering Borders’ entry into the market, perhaps I should say the “big four”). Wired reports that the Korean iRiver Story is now on sale at the UK bookstore WHSmith. It supports the usual formats (EPUB and PDF being the most-used ones on the list) and also the CBZ comic book reader format (in greyscale, of course). It also offers wifi connectivity. However, Wired notes that the SRP is £250, which works out to about $380 at current exchange rates. Of course, electronics tend...