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M5Paper is a DIY 4.7″ eReader
A friend just sent me a product listing for a really cool gadget. (Thanks, Steve!) Banggood is now selling an epaper development kit called the M5Paper. It costs $73 and features a 4.7″ E-ink screen...
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Xiaomi Mi Reader Pro Up For Pre-Order – $168, 7.8″ Screen
The Chinese gadget company Xiaomi has just launched a crowdfunding campaign for their next ereader. The crowdfunding site is in Chinese, with all the text embedded in images, so it is kinda ahrd to...
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Netronix Sends 6.8″ eReader Through FCC
Christmas came late this year, but I have a present for you. I just got an email notification that a new ereader cleared the FCC. This ereader was built by Netronix, but carries the brand MobiScribe,...
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Dasung is Working on a 25″ E-ink Monitor
Dasung is quietly famous for developing an E-ink monitor with a 13.3″ screen, and over the years they have released new models with incremental improvements. Now they are making a huge change, and I...
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Best Buy is Now Using Spectra E-ink Shelf Labels
I was in Best Buy this morning, buying a new laptop when I happened to notice that the store now had digital product labels decorating the shelves. Best Buy has bought a shelf label system from a...
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New Kobo eReader Clears the FCC, Has Bluetooth
Amazon may have put Kindle development on hold for the duration, but Kobo has not. A new Kobo ereader just showed up on the FCC website this morning. All of the photos have been embargoed, but I was...
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Pocketbook 740 Color Sports a 7.8″ Screen, Will Cost Around $300
I was just over at MobileRead, sharing the good news about Kobo’s new ereader, when I found out about the Pocketbook 740. Pocketbook’s third color ereader is going to sport a 7.8″ Kaleido E-ink screen...
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Bigme S3 Sports a 7.8″ Color E-ink Screen, Costs $544
The Pocketbook 740 will be a great color ereader, but it does have one small quirk that some won’t like: It runs a version of Linux. If you want an ereader that runs Android and has a color E-ink...
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Pocketbook InkPad Color Has a New Kaleido E-ink Screen, Costs $330
The new color ereader I told you about last week now has an official model name. It’s now known as the Pocketbook InkPad Color, and according to what I was told by Pocketbook it has a new Kaleido...
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E-ink is Now Selling a 31″ Color ePaper Screen for $2,300
Color E-ink screens are expensive, and that is doubly true as the dimensions increase. There’s less of a demand for large screens, which means smaller production runs, and consequently higher costs....
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B&N Rebrands 10.1″ Lenovo Tablet as a Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble has been exceedingly quiet on the ebook front since it was acquired two years ago. Once it stopped being a publicly traded company, it no longer announced its quarterly revenue,...
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