Most ebook sellers try to lock you into a particular ecosystem. If you don’t mind buying from the same company every time, this isn’t too bad, but you lose the ability to comparison shop, as well as making it difficult to switch apps. Fortunately, there’s a way around this problem.
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Oh! Look! Another cheap e-Book Reader! Announced at just 9,980 Yen only the PRS-T2, the successor of the PRS-G1, is Sony’s new compact e-Book reader. This 6″ (800×600) reader comes with a touchscreen and improved battery that will now give you up to 30,000 page display (around 2 month worth of usage) on a single charge in just 164g! For information the PRS-G1 only offered up to 14,000 Page worth of battery in 168g.
The comes by default with WiFi, 2GB of memory, a microSD Slot …
Kobo’s Android app recently enjoyed a brief stint of global superiority, but that playing field has been leveled with the company’s latest update for iOS. Like the Android version, Kobo for iOS now includes support for Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Additionally, users will also find support for e-books encumbered with Adobe DRM. Lastly, Kobo for iOS now lets users choose which books to store locally on their device, and it also fixes a bug that’d prevented e-books from being opened — nice to get that one squared away.
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