Sentences with phrase «e-book reader device»

We know how much you love the Calibre open - source ebook library management tool when you have to organize and convert ebooks to various formats for your Kindle, Nook, or Kobo e-book reader device, and a new version is now available.

Students are testing out Amazon.com's Kindle DX e-book reader device as part of a pilot - program taking place at seven campuses nationwide this fall.

Previously, they have the Vtech Flip aka VTech Reader, which is e-book reader device dedicated for kids.

Dedicated E-Book Readers These devices, including Amazon Kindles and Barnes & Noble Nooks, focus primarily on displaying e-books and are all we include in our Ratings.

Calibre's features include: library management; format conversion (all major ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into ebook form; viewing many different e-book formats; giving you access to your book collection over the internet using just a browser.

This page compares e-book reader devices that use e-paper.

The new generation of e-book reader devices uses Electronic Ink, instead of LCD, to make ultra-flat, low - power electrophoretic displays that are easy on the eyes and look roughly like a super high - resolution etch - a-sketch.

It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management; E-book conversion; Syncing to e-book reader devices; Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form; Comprehensive e-book viewer; Content server for online access to your book collection.

Not exact matches

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

For other e-book readers, you'll have to do it however you normally do for that device.

Broader access came in May, when Amazon released an application that allows many Kindle e-books to be read on Apple devices using Apple's VoiceOver — a screen reader designed for the blind.

This ingenious bit of cross-platform magic, originally released in 2012 and recently updated, allows a reader to switch between reading an e-book purchased through Amazon and listening to the book's audio narration seamlessly in these apps on any device.

For other e-book readers, you'll have to do it however you normally do for that device.

It can be read on any mac or PC or any e-book reader or device that is compatible with Adobe acrobat PDF format.

The capability, available on many e-book reading devices, to render digital text as Synthetic Speech, allowing someone who can not see the text to listen to it instead (see also Screen Readers).

Both systems allow reading of books on a range of devices, not just e-readers, and invite readers to buy books from their separate e-book warehouses.

The model is device agnostic — meaning the reader can download the book onto a tablet, an e-book reader or a smartphone.

A special application that enables a general - purpose device such as a mobile phone, PC or tablet to act like a specialised e-book reader.

Despite the Amazon reader's bland design and the fact that this first - generation device leaves some room for improvement, the Kindle and its corresponding service have succeeded in rekindling my interest in reading e-books.

The competition for the best e-book reader sure is tough with Amazon and Barnes & Noble (B&N) in the lead with their Kindle and Nook devices respectively.

For example, recent data from Pew Internet Research revealed 41 % of e-book readers read their e-books on an e-reader device, such as the Kindle, while 42 % read them on a computer, 29 % on a cell phone and 23 % on a tablet.

The Axis 360 Browser Reader will allow public and school libraries can utilize web ‐ access terminals as ebook reading stations so library patrons do not need to bring their own devices to read e-books at the library.

One is a dedicated note taking device, we feel that this will help businesses, students and professionals, the other is a e-book reader, with the ability to install your own apps.

With all eyes (and ears) to the Sept 6 event where a new Kindle Fire device along with a new e-book reader and a Kindle Fire dock is set to be launched, what we have are a few pointers that should give us an idea of what to expect on that auspicious day.

Sales of e-book readers and e-paper notebooks together accounted for 70 % of E Ink's third - quarter revenues, with the remaining 30 % from IoT applications including smart cards, electronic shelf labels (ESL), e-paper display solutions, and mobile and wearable devices.

Present gadgets that we see in the market using displays made by e-Ink include e-book reading devices such as the Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader.

E-book readers are not books and there is no logic in trying to attemp creating a facsimile of an electronic device.

Obviously our device is a note taking device and e-book reader.

The catch here is that multipurpose devices like tablets and smartphones are usually less suited for e-book reading than the dedicated e readers.

For example, e-book giant Amazon uses DRM which only allows readers to view books on Kindles or approved devices with the Kindle app.

There are two basic e-book formats, Mobi which works on just the Amazon Kindle and Kindle readers and ePub format which works on all the other devices such as Kobo, Nook, iPad and many others.

E-book readers, also known as e-Readers in certain quarters, are not exactly the fastest moving tablet - like device in the market at the moment, and neither has it been that way for a long time.

The e-books are fulfilled by Ingram Digital and come in three different formats: Adobe (compatible with Sony and other stand - alone e-readers), Palm (compatible with iPhones and other mobile devices), and Microsoft (compatible with the PC - based Microsoft Reader).

epub lets e-book readers register up to six desktop and six handheld devices on which content can be shared without restriction.

When Amazon started meeting with publishers about the Kindle, its future e-book reader, in 2006, the device may well have seemed to them like just another goofy Amazon idea.

E-book readers with color LCD screens, or netbooks and tablet computers such as Apple's long - rumored device, are starting to emerge, and they should be able display those new breeds of e-books, unlike today's Kindle with its slow, monochrome screen.

3) Two years ago Tim O'Reilly predicted that «Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like epub, which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years.»

Electronic book sales are expected to see a «huge surge» in 2010, partly due to the recent addition of e-book readers for iPhone and BlackBerry devices and new form factors in production, according to Fictionwise LLC's Steven Pendergrast.

Critical design changes make Amazon.com's Kindle 2 more appealing than the preceding model, but while Amazon has succeeded in enhancing its e-book reader, it has done little to advance the device to the next stage.

No doubt feeling some heat from added competition in the e-book reader market thanks to new devices like the Apple iPad, Barnes & Noble announced on Monday a lower - priced version of the existing Nook 3G.

But multipurpose devices are generally less suited to e-book reading than dedicated readers.

Two years ago, Amazon acquired Mobipocket — the company's cross-platform e-book reader is designed to run on all PCs, handheld devices and mobile phones — and it is using that company to supply titles for the player.

Citing the closing of e-book subscription services and publishers» growing warehouses, the Times noted «there are signs that some e-book adopters are returning to print, or becoming hybrid readers, who juggle devices and paper.»

However, nobody's using it yet, because there are no devices on the market that support it and, e-book readers being single - purpose hardware, you can't just update them to the latest Firefox to get support.

Consider Versatility and Flexibility Books ordered from the reader's dedicated e-book store all come formatted for the device.

E-book readers are portable devices, usually with energy - frugal black - and - white display screens optimized to show the electronic text of digital books.

Now, Google is selling a device upon which readers can read e-books and apps.

Each of the Nook Simple Touch devices will come pre-loaded with several of the bestseller titles that feature in the most recent New York Times» fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists and are updated at the start of every week to keep the e-book readers fresh with the most recent titles.

These twin screen e-book reader that also acts as a tablet PC device does offer more than the standard e-book readers do.

«We connected with Operation E-book Drop through indie author Edward C. Patterson and Smashwords to provide these books to troops abroad, and readers here can download the e-books to any platform that the author has already established, no matter what device they choose to use.»