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4 Free eBook Reader Apps for Android to Get You Out of Your Reading Slump

2024-12-222024-12-22 Danie
The image shows a person sitting at a table, reading a book. In the foreground, a smartphone is being used to read an ebook, and the person is holding it with both hands. The ebook shows a just visble open page on the left side of the phone's screen. There is a notebook and pen also on the table. In the background, there is some out-of-focus background that includes what seems to be a desk, and plants, along with other office supplies. The setting appears to be a home office or study.

Google Play Books and the Kindle app are perfectly fine. They keep your books in the cloud (perfect if you switch devices often) and provide a decent enough interface to read for long periods. But […]

Blogebooks, reading, technology

Your brain can grow from reading and learning – e-books offer the same benefit as paper books

2024-12-142024-12-14 Danie
The image shows a wall of books stacked haphazardly, creating a visually stunning texture of various colors and sizes. The foreground is dominated by the densely packed books, while the background is mostly obscured by the sheer volume of literature. The location appears to be an outdoor book market, perhaps in a Spanish-speaking country, judging by some of the visible titles. The titles visible in the image show a mix of classic and contemporary literature, suggesting a wide diversity of literary preferences.

The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they don’t read regularly (up from 42 percent in 2015) and almost one in four young […]

Blogebooks, health, reading, technology

Kobo’s new repairability push could heat up competition

2024-04-272024-04-27 Danie
A hand holding a Kobo ereader showing three books listed. The background is blurry green grass.

“The competition” is probably primarily Amazon Kindle (without a colour model, nor any repairability announced yet). Certainly, consumers score with repairability, and on the face of it, you’d think suppliers lose out. But actually, I […]

Blogebooks, Kobo, reading, technology

Koodo is an All-in-one Open Source eBook Reader App, with private cloud sync, for Windows, macOS and Linux

2022-07-252022-07-25 Danie
koodo ebook reader interface

It is a cross-platform app you can download on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can even use it in a web browser. The user interface looks modern, probably because it is an Electron app. You’ll […]

Blog#koobo, ebooks, ereader, opensource, technology

Have those who diss e-books actually used e-Ink e-Readers, or just their phones, I wonder?

2022-07-042022-07-04 Danie
eReader

I’ve long been using proper e-Ink e-readers and, in fact, the last 15 or so paper books I bought a few years ago, still lie on my unread bookshelf. I have four tall bookshelves with […]

Blogebooks, ereader, kindle, reading, technology

6 Upcoming Colour ePaper Technologies, but it’s unlikely Kindle will be leading the Pack

2022-03-142022-03-14 Danie
e ink multimedia

E-readers have long been a part of our lives. Moreover, many people prefer to read books and magazines in electronic format. According to the website Statista, the e-reader segment is expected to reach 1,182.8 million […]

Blogebooks, eink, epaper, technology

Use noDRM to Remove DRM from Purchased eBooks for Free

2022-02-232022-02-23 Danie
Apprentices Against DRM

For those of you that prefer to remove the DRM from your purchased ebooks to make backups and convert formats and such, there’s a new set of DRM removal tools called noDRM that’s based on […]

Blog#drm, #nodrm, ebooks, technology

Wolfing down ebooks during lockdown? You might want to check out free, open source, and cross-platform Calibre, the Swiss Army ebook tool

2022-01-222022-01-22 Danie
ebook

Calibre converts almost any file type into almost any other file type, so you can read whatever you want, wherever you want, no matter what format it’s in. It’s free and runs on Windows, Linux […]

Blogebooks, opensource, reading, technology
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