You might think your old Kindle eBook reader might works just fine as it is. There’s no point upgrading to a newer model as long as you still get access to the latest books. But you should know that some of the older Kindle models out there are in for a considerable change come December. …
Amazon has had a stranglehold on the e-reader market for years, but ever since the Kindle debuted in 2007, users have been asking for a rather simple feature. For 13 years, their pleas fell on deaf ears, but as of this week, Amazon is finally letting Kindle owners set the cover of the book they …
Amazon on Wednesday rolled out an updated version of its Kindle e-reader, giving the entry-level version of the tablet a small price bump and adding a front light to it — making this the first Kindle with a front light you can get your hands on for less than $100. At that price, it no …
Amazon just made its cheapest Kindle even better. The basic $80 e-reader, aka the one that most people buy, now has double the RAM, a “more rounded” design, and Bluetooth audio. Oh, and it also now comes in white. It’s a welcome update to a Kindle that’s been mostly overlooked in favor of its fancier …
Last time Amazon tried to build something revolutionary instead of evolutionary, the device failed spectacularly. Of course, we all had a sneaking suspicion the company’s Fire phone would flop long before it was ever released thanks to BGR’s exclusive reporting on the device ahead of announcement. This time around, Amazon will apparently try to inject some innovation …
Have a Kindle from 2012 or earlier? It’s about to go offline for good if you don’t update it. Over the past several days, Amazon has been sending out emails to owners of Kindle Paperwhite 5th Generation (2012) or earlier devices warning them that they need to download an important software update by March 22nd, 2016 …
Back before there was Netflix or video games or YouTube or Reddit or Tumblr or Vine or Snapchat, there were these things called books full of written stories that people read to entertain themselves. People even learned a thing or two from books every once in a while. It might seem crazy, but books are still a …
As if there haven’t been enough security scares in 2014 already, it looks like another household electronic device could be putting our private information at risk. According to security consultant Benjamin Daniel Mussler at B.FL7.DE, Amazon’s Kindle Library is currently vulnerable to XSS attacks, in which malicious code is inserted into the metadata for an …
Amazon wants to know if it can turn the Kindle into an impulse buy, and it’s using CES attendees as test subjects to find out. GeekWire was one of the first sites to run across the “Kindle Kiosk” at the McCarran airport in Las Vegas on Thursday, just as CES was beginning to wind down. …
Given what digital media options have done to CDs and newspapers, you probably assumed that the rise of eReaders such as Kindle and Nook would be doing the same thing to printed books… but you’d be wrong. Per The Guardian, a new survey of people between the ages of 16 to 24 shows that 62% …
