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Kindle Cloud Reader puts books in your browser

August 10, 2011
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As if having access to your Kindle library on your iPhone, Android phone, tablet and, er, Kindle wasn’t enough, you can now read your books in your browser. That is, so long as you’re using Google Chrome, or Safari on a computer or iPad. The new Web app from Amazon is called Kindle Cloud Reader, [...]

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British Library offers e-classics app

August 2, 2011
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The British Library is making digital copies of more than 40,000 classic books available for the iPad. Texts appear in fully digitised form, complete with original page markings and drawings, as opposed to the plain formatting associated with other types of e-books. All of the works date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include [...]

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Apple forces changes to e-reader apps

July 26, 2011
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It had to happen sooner or later. According to a report on CNet, Apple has kicked out other e-reader apps (or made buying off them more of a hassle). Apple twice amended its terms for subscriptions in the App Store, requiring companies to give Apple a 30 percent cut on sales their apps generate. In [...]

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Borders cuts store feature in e-reader app

July 9, 2011
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The first of the big name e-book reading apps has removed links to its external e-bookstore in order to conform with Apple’s recently-implemented App Store policy. Borders, which has has had its e-book offering on the App Store for more than a year, today updated its application to completely remove the built-in Kobo bookstore browser, [...]

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First Proper Stab

June 12, 2011

Well, we were supposed to be racing the whippets at Worcester today, except it decided to piss with rain, so we’re staying put. Which has given me a chance (while I’m at mums) to have a practice with our shiny new iPad2. I was going to be more descriptive than that, but its bloody hard [...]

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App Tip of the Week

September 26, 2008

So Air Sharing is free to download from the Appstore for two weeks. This app should enable you to do file transfers via wifi from an iphone or iPod Touch to a Mac or PC. Apart from the fact that I could not get it to work on the Macbook, I realised that my PC [...]

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Went the Day Badly

August 11, 2008

Horrible day. Having been rather happy with Vista I struggled to get the one app I really needed to use today to work… I managed it eventually, but it took most of the day to track it down. So the amount of cash I saved on buying it from Overclockers got sort of swallowed up [...]

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