Month: October 2020
58 posts
The Cold Millions is the B&N Book Club November Pick
Barnes and Noble has made their book club online only, since the global pandemic first begun. Discussion and book club selections are only available on the Facebook Page. The page is private, and readers have to apply, but they pretty well accept everyone. Employees at the B&N retail stores are totally unaware this program exist. The book club pick for November is the Cold Millions by Jess Walter.
Audible has added 100,000 free podcasts
Audible has just added 100,000 podcasts to its network and they are all available for free. These podcasts are already available on other streaming platforms, but it’s good news for people who are already invested in the Audible ecosystem. Included in the new lineup are top podcasts like “Pod Save America,” “You’re Wrong About,” “This American Life,” “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” and “FiveThirtyEight Politics.” The podcasts are available in the Audible app for Android and iOS and there is also a new podcast landing page.
Will you buy the Onyx Boox Note 3 or Nova 3?
Are you going to buy the Note 3 or the Nova 3? They both are incremental upgrades over the previous generation models, if you have the Note 2 or Nova 2, upgrading to the latest, might not make a ton of sense. Although if you have the first generation Nova, Nova Pro or the Note/Note Pro, this would be worth it.
Amazon Alexa has a new book recommendation system
Amazon Alexa has added some new functionality to discover new ebooks. Now, customers can simply say “Alexa, what should I read next?” to get a book recommendation based on personalized, top-selling or trending books from over 20 million Audible, Kindle or print titles. The conversational experience allows customers to ask for specific genres or authors, listen to book summaries, learn about ratings, editorial reviews and more. The feature is another example of the many ways Alexa is becoming more conversational and natural to interact with. And, it’s particularly useful for consumers who are now reading more while at home due to COVID-19.
Onyx Boox Note Air vs Onyx Boox Max Lumi
What are the things these two devices have in common? They both have the same processor, run Android 10 and have Google Play. They have a really good lighting system, although the Note Air is better, due to the extra LED lights. They have the latest OS3, so you can run two apps at the same time, and have advancements to the drawing app, so you can use layers, new templates, new pen/pencil types.
Who are these products designed for? Inevitably people will say, I can buy an iPad for this type of money and get more functionality. E INK fundamentally is easy on the eyes and the battery lasts 2-3 weeks, not 1 or 2 days. Onyx gears the Max and Air towards creatives and professionals, who want a device geared towards productivity. You can freehand draw, make notes, edit PDF files/ebooks. There is minimal distractions with these type of devices, you are not going to be barraged with notifications and phone calls. Android provides a ton of flexibility to send your edited PDF files or notes to the cloud storage solution of your choice or just send them via email.
