The Star Trek Reader. Twenty-one Novelized Episodes Based on the Exciting Television Series Created by Gene Roddenberry. James Blish. 1968, 1969, 1972. Dutton. 372 pages. This is the first volume in the book series of adaptations by James Blish. It contains three books, “Star Trek 2,” “Star Trek 3,” and “Star Trek 8.” It was [...]
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Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader Comes To Firefox
Posted by on November 9th, 2011
Kindle Cloud Reader While Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader app might have been a response to Apple’s restrictive app store purchasing rules, it manages to be one of the best examples of the potential inherent in HTML5 applications. Users are able to enjoy all of the benefits of a local Kindle reading app without going through [...]
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No Comments »Sony Tries To Step Up The Kindle Competition With Upgraded Reader Apps
Posted by on October 24th, 2011
Since right around the time Amazon launched the first Kindle, Sony has had trouble maintaining a place at the front of the eReading world. In a way this is really a shame, since it was the Sony Reader that first brought E INK reading devices to the public in a meaningful way. I still have [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Apps, Competition, Kindle, Reader, Sony, Step, Tries, Upgraded No Comments »Kindle Cloud Reader Frees The eBook From The App
Posted by on September 6th, 2011
Kindle Cloud Reader Following the recent move by Apple to cripple any iBooks competition via billing requirements, it really isn’t much of a surprise to see Amazon pushing the Kindle Cloud Reader to what seems like it might be an early release. What is surprising is how functional it is at launch and how familiar [...]
Sony Reader WiFi Finally Brings Real Kindle Challenge
Posted by on September 2nd, 2011
For some time now the Kindle, while retaining its mostly uncontested status as the superior eReader choice for consumers, has been facing increasingly able competitors. The new Nook Simple Touch has made a splash in the US by essentially being the Kindle without a physical keyboard (though admittedly that’s oversimplifying the impressive progress B&N has [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Brings, Challenge, Finally, Kindle, Reader, Real, Sony, WiFi No Comments »Kobo To Open HTML5 eReading App Similar To Kindle Cloud Reader
Posted by on August 28th, 2011
Fascinated as we are by the platform here, Kindle users are far from the only group to be inconvenienced by Apple’s in-app purchasing guideline enforcement. Apple built the popularity of their iPads on the availability and functionality of apps being developed by other parties, only to change their minds once an ownership base was established. [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Cloud, eReading, HTML5, Kindle, Kobo, Open, Reader, Similar No Comments »MS Reader Just Couldn’t Compete With Amazon’s Kindle Anymore
Posted by on August 25th, 2011
When it comes to deciding who had the biggest impact in the earliest days of eReading, perhaps the only real answer is Microsoft. Long before the Kindle, or even the first Sony Reader, you could pick up many of your favorite titles and read them on whatever computer or PDA you happened to have handy. [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon’s, Anymore, Compete, Couldn’t, Just, Kindle, Reader No Comments »Hanvon Color eInk Reader Revealed
Posted by on February 2nd, 2011
One of the things that I failed to mention in my previous post on CES Goodies was the announcement and demonstration of the first ever Color E Ink eReader. I’d like to say that this is the beginning of a trend that will eventually lead to a Kindle with color of some sort, but there [...]
2011 Challenges: TBR Pile Challenge (Roof Beam Reader)
Posted by on December 22nd, 2010
I have decided to join Roof Beam Reader’s TBR Challenge. It’s a little stricter than the other TBR challenge I plan on joining (as far as publication date, as far as number of alternates), but I think it will be a good challenge for me. Many of these are from 2009. But a few of [...]
Sony Reader App Announced
Posted by on December 1st, 2010
Sony, the company that all but started the eReading industry, has finally gotten around to joining the mobile reading app marketplace! This December, according to their admittedly sparse preview page, we’ll get to play with Sony Reader for iPhone and Sony Reader for Android in addition to their hardware options. It will have the expected [...]
