Icarus runs their own website and online store, where they directly sell their entire portfolio of e-readers. Over the course of the past few weeks every single one of their devices are out of stock. There are also no devices available on Amazon either. The company has just told me that they have a new e-reader coming out in October 2018. During the last twelve months many … [Read more...] about All Icarus e-readers are out of stock
Archives for September 2018
This is how Android Lite and Go apps perform on an e-reader
Android developers have released a series of Lite and Go apps in the past few months. These were primarily designed for the developing world, where people tend to have lower end smartphones with 2G internet connections. Lite apps tend to be 2MB to 10MB fully installed and lack many of the animations and features of their berethron. Good e-Reader has just conducted a video … [Read more...] about This is how Android Lite and Go apps perform on an e-reader
Pocketbook Touch Lux 4 Review
The Pocketbook Touch Lux 3 came out in early 2016 and it was due for a refresh. The company has just issued the 4th generation model and it completely redesigns the e-reader and it is now similar to the InkPad. Hardware The Pocketbook Touch Lux 4 features a six inch E Ink Carta display with a resolution of 1024×758 and uses a capacitive touchscreen. It has a new … [Read more...] about Pocketbook Touch Lux 4 Review
Good e-Reader now available on Google Home and Google News App
Good e-Reader is more accessible than ever before and you can now get caught up with all of the latest digital reading news on Google Home and the Google News app for Android and iOS. If you live in the United States and have any of the Google Home speakers, Good e-Reader now supports the beta version of Speakable Schema. All of our articles will now be read aloud when you … [Read more...] about Good e-Reader now available on Google Home and Google News App
How to borrow ebooks from Overdrive on a Kobo e-reader
Kobo has recently made Overdrive library books accessible on all of their current generation e-readers. This allows users to browse for books, check them out and read them right on the device, instead of using complicated workarounds. This tutorial video outlines where you enter your library card and four digit pin number and where all of the library books are located. You will … [Read more...] about How to borrow ebooks from Overdrive on a Kobo e-reader
Onyx Boox Lite is a 10.3 e-reader with no stylus support
Onyx Boox is going to be releasing a variant of their 10.3 inch Note that forgoes the WACOM digitizer layer and only has a capacitive touchscreen display. The Note Lite is geared towards people who want a large screen e-reader to read comics, ebooks, manga, magazines, newspapers and PDF documents. There will be no support for editing PDF files or taking notes, this software … [Read more...] about Onyx Boox Lite is a 10.3 e-reader with no stylus support