I hope TeleReaders will forgive the preponderance of Kindle stories this morning, but it is a pretty newsworthy event in the e-book world. (And besides, David has made two Kindle posts to my one, and I need to catch up!) Did you know that the expressions “the writing on the wall� and “days are...

I turned away from my iTod Touch screen and peered into a crystal ball for  the January issue of Publishing Trends. My 2009 predictions shouldn’t surprise TeleBlog regulars. For example: 1. Major growth in the use of cellphones as e-book readers. 2. Tough competition for the Kindle from n...

A couple of days ago, someone suggested David write a retrospective about the different e-reading devices he had used through the years. It seemed like a marvelous idea to me, and there certainly is room for more than one such article. So here is mine. 1. Palm IIIe I had long wanted a Palm Pilot, ev...

Quite by accident I find myself reading three different books on three different readers. I hadn’t intended to do this, but somehow it happened. The result has been that I’ve found that I really don’t like any of these platforms. A paperback is still a more comfortable way to read....

Despite rumors that the Kindle would reach the U.K. this year, the Guardian quotes an Amazon spokesman there as denying such plans. In fact, the intro isn’t supposed to happen anywhere outside the States. Word games? Hmm. Any technicalities here, assuming that the Guardian report is right̵...

Filed under: Handhelds We knew the Kindle's DRM would be cracked the minute we heard about it, and it looks like the first chink in the armor is here courtesy of Igor Skochinsky: he's discovered the algorithm the Kindle uses to turn regular Mobipocket books into Amazon's proprietary .azw format. The...

What's missing on the iPhone is a file system. So people have assumed that you can't use it to copy documents for offline reading. It's really a shame as the iPhone has a great screen and a very capable rendering engine based on Quartz. But even without jailbreaking your phone and therefore messing ...

For quite some time, Mobipocket users have been clamoring for an official Mobipocket application for the iPhone (as well as Mac OS X Desktop, and Linux (desktop and mobile), which have gotten lumped together in the same Mobipocket forum thread). There are applications that read unencrypted Mobipocke...