E-books: Other Devices
Audiobooks
Desktop, Laptop: General
- check eReaders with device/store (e.g., Google, Kindle, Kobo, Nook, OverDrive) for availability of a free eReader application for your platform
- Pocket launches new Mac app for cross-platform sharing and offline reading offline reading alternative to e-book format? 10/25/2012
- $13 E-Reader Could Be Your Next Smartphone Accessory txtr beagle; two AAA batteries; Bluetooth; 10/10/2012
- Ultrabooks: A Bevy of Beauties, and So PC 3/29/2012
- How to Make Reading on Your Computer a Better Experience (calibrate monitor; better lighting/stand; enhance reader app w/ extensions, services); 3/5/2012
- .epub Readers and Editors (Readers: Bookworm, Blio, Calibre, FB Reader, Magic Scroll, Mobipocket, Nook, Sony Reader Library, uread; Adobe Digital Editions, EPUBReader, Lucidor, Openberg; Aldiko, Bluefire, iBooks, Stanza; Editors: Adobe InDesign, Azardi, Calibre, ePubIt, eCub, Atlantis Word Processor, Sigil, Padilicious); 12/5/2011
- Feature wars and computing shifts: Netbook vs. Tablet 11/16/2011
- Q&A: E-books Without an E-Reader 6/21/2011
- Alternate Apps: Nook vs. Kindle for your computer 6/21/2011
- How to read ebooks without an e-reader 5/19/2011
- Mac E-book Software
Desktop, Laptop: Applications (alphabetically)
- not a complete list...
- Adobe Digital Editions
- Bookle [Mac] (app; $9.99); Take Control of Bookle (free manual: .pdf, .epub)
- Introducing Bookle, an EPUB Reader for Mac OS X 2/6/2012
- Bookle brings ePub reading to the Mac 2/6/2012
- Bookle: A New Way to Read Ebooks On Your Mac 2/13/2012
- Calibre library & reader, as well as publisher; [slideshow]
- ePub Reader: FireFox addon; [slideshow]
- Google apps: iPad app; eReaders, tablets, smartphones, web browser
iBooks: iBooks on Mac or Windows (in iTunes)? not yet... ctrl-click .epub file to Open with... (your favorite eReader app), or access via iTunes; however, this does not work with purchased (DRM) ePubs- Why Apple will produce iBooks/Newsstand for Mac 8/5/2011
- Kindle apps for other devices: iPad; iPhone, Windows PC, Mac, Blackberry, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7; Cloud Reader (web browser)
- Amazon updates its Kindle Mac app, adds support for gestures, new Kindle 8 format and more 9/10/2012
- Kobo apps: iPad; tablets: Android, Blackberry Playbook, iPad; desktop: PC, Mac; smartphones
- Nook apps for other devices: iPad; iPad, iPad(Kids), Android, PC, Mac
- Opera proposal brings a book look to the Web 10/11/2011
- Sigil; [slideshow]
- Stanza Desktop: Mac OS; Windows
eReaders, Tablets, Other
- not a complete list, mostly alphabetical
- Four Alternatives to the New iPad Amazon Kindle Fire; Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime; Samsung Galaxy Note; Blackberry PlayBook; 3/19/2012
- Beginner's guide to Android phones and tablets 1/23/2012
- Just Show Me: Getting started with the Kindle App for your Android phone or tablet 1/4/2012
- 2012 Best eBook Reader Comparisons and Reviews 2012
- 10 Mobile (phone) Apps for Bookworms: Kindle, Comics, Goodreads, IndieBound, Book Crawler, Classics, Stanza, iBooks, Wattpad, Goggles
- Apple: Apple planning to bring iBooks to Apple TV? 9/5/2012
- Blackberry: Research in Motion (RIM): Blackberry Playbook; Wikipedia
- BlackBerry PlayBook To Come Pre-Loaded With PressReader Instant Access To 2,000+ Newspapers; 11/11/2011
- Bokeen Cybook: Bookeen Cybook Odyssey e-book reader 2/28/2012
- Cybook Odyssey E-Reader Shows Arrives With Touchscreen, Web Navigation 10/7/2011
- Bookeen Cybook Orizon: Touchscreen ebook reader needs better Web access 8/18/2011
- HP: Wikipedia: HP TouchPad (WebOS)
- HP to Reenter Tablet Market with Windows 8 5/11/2012
- HP Slate 2 revives Windows 7 tablet ($699) after lost shot at iPad 11/2/2011
- Kyobo: Kyobo eReader with Mirasol display gets video walkthrough, does things E Ink can't 12/19/2011
- Kyobo Mirasol color e-reader debuts in Korea 11/22/2011
- Microsoft: Why Is the Surface So Bad? 11/5/2012
- Missing From Surface Tablet: Barnes & Noble?s Nook App 10/26/2012
- Microsoft Surface RT Review: This Is Technological Heartbreak 10/23/2012
- Sleek Tablet, but Clumsy Software 10/23/2012
- The Differences Between Windows 8 and Windows RT Explained 10/22/2012
- What Windows RT Can?t Do 10/19/2012
- Seven things to consider for a Windows tablet 10/18/2012
- How Microsoft Surface stacks up against competing tablets 10/17/2012
- How Will the Microsoft Surface Tablet Function as an e-Reader? 6/20/2012
- Microsoft's long and tortured history in tablets 6/19/2012
- No Tablet News Yet From Nokia, But It Is Launching Its E-Reader Reading App Nokia Reading, in Europe; 5/11/2012
- A Windows 8 e-reader: If someone builds it, will they come? 3/19/2012
- Nokia hints at Windows 8 tablets (older tablet: Nokia N800); 11/2/2011
- How Windows 8 KO'd the innovative Courier tablet 11/2/2011
- Wikipedia: Courier; The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet 11/1/2011
- Microsoft Reader E-Book System Comes To Its Conclusion 8/15/2011
- OLPC: Wikipedia: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child); one.laptop.org
- OLPC XO 3.0 Hands On: The $100 Wonder Tablet 1/8/2012
- Negroponte On OLPC Future 100 books; ~$100; 11/2/2011
- Samsung: Wikipedia: Samsung Galaxy Tab
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 review: The anti-Kindle Fire? expandable memory, dual cameras, and a full Android experience for only $250; 4/13/2012
- Sony: sony.com: Reader Wi-Fi [eReader], Tablet S [tablet]
- Wikipedia: Sony Reader
- Sony intros Virtual Book Club, enlists 'Breakfast Club' alum 10/26/2012
- Sony?s New eReader Is Light, Pleasant, and Massively Late to the Game PRS-T2; 8/16/2012
- Sony launches web store for e-Books, Android app also gets refresh 6/6/2012
- How the Tech Parade Passed Sony By 4/14/2012
- Sony Reader WiFi PRS-T1 review; review [video; 4:02]; 10/7/2011
- First look at the new Sony Reader PRS-T1 8/27/2011
- Sony Reader Touch and Amazon Kindle 3 go head-to-head 9/20/2010
E-books: Future