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New Kindle Paperwhites Just in Time for Christmas!
Kobo announces two new e-readers, including $260 note-taking Sage... Because Amazon needs good and open competition
Both devices keep the asymmetrical design popularized by Amazon’s Oasis e-reader, offer E Ink Carta 1200 screens with Kobo’s ComfortLight Pro feature (which adapts the screen brightness and color based on the time of day), and add Bluetooth support for wireless headphones (though they can only play Kobo’s own audiobooks).
The Sage is the larger of the two and also functions as an e-note device. It’s compatible with the company’s Kobo Stylus (sold separately for $40), which lets users make handwritten notes on ebooks and PDFs that can be can converted to plain text. With an 8-inch (1440 x 1920) E Ink display, this makes the Sage smaller than Kobo’s dedicated e-note slate, the 10.3-inch Elipsa. It’s also cheaper, too, as the Elipsa is priced at $399.
15 file formats supported natively (EPUB, EPUB3, FlePub, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR), and OverDrive for public library ebooks.
See Kobo announces two new e-readers, including $260 note-taking Sage
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Kobo’s new e-readers look pretty tempting
When do you know you have done (way) to much reading with only your Ereader?
When you read a real book, and you try to swipe to the next page [Facepalm]
A real experience, I got this book (see photo, 'A garden Chuckful with flowers') for my birthday (and a lot of [asked for] coffee stuff) and started reading this, and my brain just did not make the jump to actual book reading so i was swiping for the third time before it (my brain that is) woke up and told me that was a stupid thing to do in this case ;-)
Sooo, yeah, that felt really silly :-D
About the book? Well I started just with it, so I can not give a complete review, but it is very nice, it tells about the use of perennials in the garden to create an explosion of flowers that is a feast to the eyes and a joy for all insects (incidentally also attracting the kind of insects that hunt the pests in your garden like lice).
It shows that a garden like that does not have to be more work than a tiled up prison yard, like you see a lot around here.
People think (wrongly) that tiling up all of it will free them of maintaining stuff.
But nope, weeds always find ways to grow, especially when there is no competition at all from other plants. A good designed garden with loads of shrubs and perennials will be just as little work, is easier on the eye, and gives you way more pleasure.
It also contains more water, has a better (less hot) atmosphere (up to 8C) than tiled up spaces, and is a haven for all kind of wildlife.
But these books (yeah, back on topic ;-) ) are useless on ereaders, as they offer images (color) and an ereader screen is to small to be acceptable for these type of books.
Or at least that is how i feel about them. Also cookbooks btw. the same thing really :-D
So, I have my work cut out for me, and a welcome break in my usual reading diet, and who knows what useful information as lurking behind the next page.
Pine64 announces a 10.1 inch $399 e-reader with Linux and pen support
Hong Kong-based Pine64 has been selling single-board computers for years, but it might be best known for the PinePhone and PineBook Pro, some of the best ARM-powered Linux devices available right now. Now the company is branching out into e-readers, with the announcement of the PineNote — an e-ink Linux tablet with pen support and a price tag of $399.
Pine64 says the device will be just over 7mm in depth, beating out the 8.4mm Kindle Oasis 3 and 8.6mm Nook GlowLight Plus. Pine64 expects that the PineNote will ship with a custom Linux kernel out of the box, but work is underway to port the display driver to mainline Linux. The interface will either be KDE Plasma or Plasma Mobile. That should allow it to run any software compiled for ARM Linux, and perhaps Android applications through Anbox or WayDroid.
See Pine64 reveals PineNote e-ink tablet with Linux and pen support
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Pine64, makers of the PinePhone and PineBook Pro, announced a $399 e-reader that will run full Linux and support Wacom pens.
https://gadgeteer.co.za/pine64-announces-101-inch-399-e-reader-linux-and-pen-support
Kobo Elipsa 10.3" e-Reader with Stylus is now available for US$400
No, this is not a colour e-Ink device, but it is a larger size with full annotation and sketching support from the world's number two player in the e-Reader industry. Why number two when they offer so much more than Kindles? Well because Kindle works with Amazon's proprietary format which Amazon distributes via their massive online store. Kobo does support PDF and ePub, and will read DRM ePubs without any issue, but Amazon does not sell ePub format so that market is closed to Kobo and other e-readers.
This stylus is proprietary, no other pens work with the Elipsa, which is a pity, but it works just fine. Kobo has always used Linux has an operating system for all of their consumer e-readers and the Elipsa is no different.
Viewing and editing PDF files is also one of the flagship functionalities. You can freehand draw anywhere on the document, although you cannot highlight a specific word or body of text in a conventional manner. You basically need to press down on the highlight button and paint the highlight, think of it as just scribbling. You can save DRM-Free PDF files to your devices internal storage, send to Dropbox or export them to your PC/MAC.
More details in the review at Hands on Review of the Kobo Elipsa
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Kobo is the global number two player in the e-Reader industry. The company has done a very good job over the years with international expansion and selling their devices in a retail setting. This allows customers to play around with the units before they buy them, this is something that Amazon has not really been able to solve, outside of the US, with their small footprint of bookstores. Kobo first started developing e-readers in 2010 and have released 16 different E INK devices over the years. They have always put a priority on consumers and various e-readers hit different price
https://gadgeteer.co.za/kobo-elipsa-103-e-reader-stylus-now-available-us400
