The Kindle Metro App is now finally available also for Norwegian users of the public beta of Windows 8. The Metro app is the equivalent of the Kindle Cloud Reader and it doesn’t bring many new features. Once you open a book you can navigate to different parts of the text (cover, table of contents or a specific page). Placing bookmarks is also available, just like the synchronization option (Whispersync). Some Windows 8 specific options are pinning the books to the Start screen, as a […] Continue reading →
Amazon released Kindle 2 yesterday. I must say that it is a bit to expensive, US $ 359. The price makes it compete with small laptops, like the popular “netbooks”. But having said that, you have free wireless with Verzion. Yepp, you read correctly, Amazon pays the bill. Reviews seem to conclude with it is close to perfect! Funnily enough, more or less at the same time as Kindle 2 gets released, one of my professors, Karen O’Brien, publishes a book that it is also available […] Continue reading →
The year has more or less come to an end. It has been a very exciting year for me, as I have been working with projects like accessability, web standards and Internet trends. So let me dedicate one of this years’ last blog updates to the trends that I think we will see appearing next year. And yes, you can comment on this blog now in 2008 and come back to it in 2010, and then criticize me for all the wrong predictions that I made. […] Continue reading →
I have promised myself to try to live in an environmental friendly way. This year I have managed to cut my paper use to a minimum, I have almost not bought a newspaper, magazine or printed out a PDF! The same goes for books, I have bought 6 eBooks so far this year and with O’Reilly going digital without DRM I guess several books are to be read on my Cybook in the time to come! It is not the best selection, but at least it is a start. And if Bookeen soon could update the Cybook with […] Continue reading →
It is funny to see that books are going through their biggest change in nearly 400 years. They are starting to migrated to electronic reading devices. So called “ebooks”, such as Amazon’s Kindle, the Sony eBook, Booken Cybook and the iLiad, enable you to read on a device lighter than a paperback with electronic ink. The ebook can be read comfortably in almost any light conditions, including on beaches. It has no need for a backlit screen that fades away at inopportune […] Continue reading →
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