About bloody time. I hope Barnes & Noble follows suite. I prefer, for a variety of reasons, B&N ebooks and their Nook over Amazon's format and the Kindles. My problem is that I have an old Nook tablet, theoretically I can root it and it will run a version of Android, but I don't know if it'll be a late enough version to access Google's Play ( Read more... )

This is awesome. Guy in Austria built a robot using Lego Mindstorm that presses the Next page on the Kindle, then presses the space bar on his Mac to take a picture of the screen. The image is run through a cloud-based OCR package and a text file is returned ( Read more... )

On one hand, it's cool that it can be (for now) rooted by playing an MP3. On the other, this could be a major infection vector. I would expect Amazon to patch this, but it's still interesting.http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11

Surprise factor: zero. The students can't highlight, can't easily flip between pages, complain that the bookmarking function is buggy, color charts are less valuable (Kindle is monochrome), and that the cost of ebooks is not significantly cheaper than dead tree editions. In fact, the article quotes that one ebook costs as much as a used copy of ( Read more... )

"Three US universities will stop promoting the use of Amazon.com's Kindle DX e-book reader in classrooms after complaints that the device doesn't give blind students equal access to information. Settlements with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Pace University in New York City and Reed College in Portland, Oregon, were announced ( Read more... )

Here's a amalgamation of quotes by Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, where he would say one thing and the Kindle Terms of Service would say another. For example:

Act I: The act of buying ( Read more... )