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The Best PDF Reader Apps for the iPad

The school year's already begun for most American college students, and they are no doubt racked with the same problem that we had as undergrads: carrying around countless handouts, course packets,...

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Easy E-Reading: The Ventral Route and the End of Experimental Text

Wired's Jonah Lehrer recently spoke to neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, who explained that our brain uses two processes to interpret the written word: the "ventral route" for fast reads, and the...

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Meet Nelson, Coupland and Alice: IDEO's Future Books

Last week, design innovation factory IDEO wowed us with a reinvention of the woefully stagnant ATM. Now, it has released a video highlighting three new concepts for digital reading. 'Nelson' helps to...

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Bus Driver Caught Reading Kindle Behind the Wheel

Texting while driving is bad enough, especially when you're trusted with the lives of dozens of passengers as an employee of a public transportation system. But 40-year-old Lahcen Qouchbane, a driver...

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BlackBerry Births the PlayBook: The First 'Professional-Grade' Tablet

It was really a matter of when, not if, RIM would throw its hat into the tablet arena with a BlackBerry branded device. Now the fun and games iPad has an appropriate foil in the all business...

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Amazon Kindle for the Web Improves E-Reading Previews

Amazon already has Kindle apps on the three biggest smartphone platforms and the two most popular consumer OSes, so what's left for it to conquer? (Besides Linux that is.) The Web, of course, and...

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Kno Adds Single Screen Model to E-Text Book Lineup

Kno blew a few minds at this year's D8 with its dual-screen tablet aimed at students. The Linux-powered digital textbook offered two 14.1-inch capacitive touchscreens and a powerful Tegra 2 chipset...

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Scholastic Study: Kids Read Less as They Get Older, But Want to Use E-Readers

If you give a kid a Kindle, she's going to ask for more fun books. A study commissioned by Scholastic -- the publisher of the 'Goosebumps' and 'Harry Potter' series -- found that 57-percent of kids...

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Barnes & Noble PubIt DIY eBook Platform Lets You Take on J.K. Rowling

Barnes & Noble is continuing to improve its e-book offerings and, with the launch of its PubIt! platform, is now offering writers and small-scale publishers the ability to make their works...

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Briss Trims and Repaginates PDFs for Better E-Reading

PDFs viewing on an e-reader is a must-have feature. But there is a problem; many PDFs you'll find, whether passed out by professors or downloaded from free e-book sites like Project Gutenberg or Google...

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Craig Mod's E-Reader Incompetence Checklist

"Can you copy text?" "Would a PDF actually provide a better reading experience?" Book designer and developer Craig Mod wonders why publishers are putting their products on e-readers if they don't look...

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Kindle Singles: Amazon Announces Shorter E-Books at Smaller Prices

Long before the 30-minute time slot defined the TV show, and the 45-minute LP defined the album, aspiring authors were constrained by how many, or how few, words a publisher was willing to print. Such...

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Booki.sh: An HTML5-Powered E-Reader for Everybody

The new HTML5-powered 'Booki.sh' e-reading app is entirely Web-based and, unlike Kindle, Nook or even Blio, can be viewed in any modern browser, regardless of platform. This means that PCs, Macs,...

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Printed Textbooks Still Thriving in the Age of The iPad

The iPad and NOOKstudy were supposed to usher in the death of the traditional textbooks. Yet, for all their undeniable advantages (lower price being key amongst them, since a single semester's texts...

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Amazon to Finally Let You Lend Kindle Books to Friends

Kindle-wielding bibliophiles will soon be able to share their favorite books with their literary friends, thanks to a new book lending policy that Amazon announced on Friday. As TechCrunch explains,...

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Colleges Save Students Cash by Forcing Them to Buy E-Textbooks

We've already heard about how students are clinging to printed textbooks despite many of the advantages provided by e-books. Sales of electronic textbooks are expected to increase in the coming years,...

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NOOKcolor E-Reader Targets iPad, Declares Reading the 'Killer App'

Earlier today at its Union Square location in downtown Manhattan, Barnes & Noble announced the latest addition to the Nook family of readers: the NOOKcolor. The seven-inch tablet packs a...

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NYT Sunday Book Review Will Include E-Book Bestseller List in 2011

Further cementing e-books' relevance to mainstream culture, the New York Times announced Wednesday that it will include e-book bestseller lists for fiction and non-fiction titles in its Sunday Book...

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Amazon Relents, Pulls Bestselling Pedophilia Guide From Kindle Bookstore

When a book offering guidance on how to be a pedophile inexplicably landed in the Kindle's list of Top 100 Paid Bestsellers, Amazon suddenly found itself at the center of a brewing national...

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Copia, A Social E-Reading App, Quietly Launches

E-book reading platforms are a dime a dozen these days. (Don't believe us? Just do a search in the Android Market or iTunes App Store for "e-reader" or "books.") But Copia -- a new e-reading...

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