The Hong Kong Electronics Fair is in full swing and there are some new videos that showcase the Onyx Boox Poke and the Onyx Boox Nova in action. These two devices have excellent hardware specs and will be released later this year. The Onyx Boox Poke will have a six inch E-Ink Carta display with a resolution of … [Read more...]
Google Launches Talk to Books
Google has just launched a new service called Talk to Books and it leverages machine learning. If you type in a full sentence it searches all the sentences in over 100,000 books to find the ones that respond to your input based on semantic meaning. Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering and Rachel Bernstein, Product … [Read more...]
Will you Buy a Red or Gold iPhone?
Apple just launched a new color option for the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, Red. It is available to buy in all of the Apple retail stores and online. The red iPhone has a black bezel on the front and a red glass backing that is bright and vibrant. When the sun hits it at certain angles it looks like a Ferrari and at … [Read more...]
Making Highlights on the Amazon Kindle is Now Easier
Amazon has just pushed out a new firmware update for the Kindle that allows you to make multiple highlights with fewer clicks by turning off the highlight menu from Reading Settings. This is a boon for users who want to make a bunch of highlights at once. The 5.9.5 update is being pushed out via WIFI over the … [Read more...]
Onyx Boox e-Music Score has 128GB of Internal Storage
Onyx has just announced the Boox e-Music Score and it has the same specs as the MAX2, except this model has 128 GB of storage space and a white housing instead of black. There is a new feature called auto page turning with piano rhythm, which makes me wonder if Onyx is developing their own foot pedal to connect up via … [Read more...]
Audio Reader by Good e-Reader Android App Review
The Audio Reader by Good e-Reader turns your ebooks into audiobooks. The narration is brought to you by Amazon Polly, which sounds like Alexa. You can import in ebooks in English or 28 other languages have them read aloud in male and female voices. The TTS system can be turned off and you can use our app has a … [Read more...]
Onyx Boox Nova e-Reader has a 7.8 inch Screen and Google Play
Onyx has just announced a new 7.8 inch e-reader that they are going to debut at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. This model has a E-Ink Carta HD screen with a resolution of 1872x1404 and 300PPI. Underneath the hood is a 1.6GHZ quad core processor, which is the same one that the Onyx Boox Note employs. There is 32GB of … [Read more...]
New Onyx Boox Poke is a 6 inch Quad Core e-Reader
Onyx is going to be showing off a new six inch e-reader at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair called the Boox Poke. The big selling point is that it is the first six inch device that has a quad core processor and Android 6.0. The Onyx Boox Poke will have a six inch E-Ink Carta display with a resolution of 1072x1448 with … [Read more...]
Onyx Announces Boox Note S e-Reader
Onyx has just announced a smaller version of the Boox Note and it is going to be called the Note S. This device will be 9.7 inches and will be less expensive than the 10.3 inch model. There is no word yet on when it will be released or how much it will cost. The Onyx Boox Note S features a 9.7 inch capacitive inch … [Read more...]
Japan is Facing a Digital Manga Piracy Crisis
Digital manga sales are on the rise in Japan. For the first time ever the digital format has overtaken print, but there is a looming crisis when it comes to piracy. One of the most notorious manga pirate websites in Japan drew a whopping 174 million visitors in the month of March, making it the 25th busiest website. … [Read more...]
New Book by J.R.R. Tolkien is called the The Fall of Gondolin
The Fall of Gondolin is a new book by J.R.R. Tolkien and was edited and revised by his son Christopher. It was illustrated by The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings artist Alan Lee and will be published by HarperCollins this August. Here is the books byline "During the years that the dark lord Morgoth (Sauron’s … [Read more...]
UK Audiobook Sales Have Doubled in the Past 5 Years
Audiobook sales have doubled in the United Kingdom in the past five years. In 2017 audiobook sales rose by 12% in volume and 15% in value and digital audio now accounts for 5% of consumer book spending. “Audiobook growth is an encouraging sign that the book consumer in 2017 had a good appetite for content in many … [Read more...]