Hasta La Gadget!

If you’ve found yourself somewhat irked by the Kindle‘s lackluster organizing abilities, you clearly aren’t alone. A post by The Kindle Team over on Facebook has made clear that Amazon is aware of the shortcoming, and it’s currently toiling away on a “better way to organize your growing Kindle libraries.” No details are given about the forthcoming solution, but the team does confess that it’ll be released as an over-the-air update “in the first half of next year.” Huzzah?

[Thanks, Anthony]

Amazon promises update to better ‘organize Kindle libraries’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re still not quite sure this mad rush to produce e-book readers will result in anything but tears and heartbreak, but that isn’t stopping BenQ from joining in: it’s just announced the nReader, which will hit Taiwan in January along with an online bookstore, followed by Japan and China. The hardware itself is pretty standard fare, with a six-inch touchscreen electronic ink display, 2GB of memory, and ePub / HTML / PDF support, so we’ll see if this thing manages to move 300,000 units next year like BenQ says it will — that seems fairly optimistic to us, but it’s just a drop in the bucket according to BenQ, which says that over 100 million e-readers will sold in ten years. We’ll see.

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BenQ bringing nReader e-book reader to Asia originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon and Barnes & Noble may be swiping the limelight, but Sony’s clearly playing for keeps with its $399 Reader Daily Edition. The 7-inch e-book reader has just been listed for pre-order over at SonyStyle, and with it will come wireless access (via AT&T) to the company’s own eBookstore. We’re told that the company will “announce newspaper and magazine content providers within the next month,” and of course, no monthly fees will be tacked on from browsing and buying books. If plans stay on track, we should see the first shipments leave next month — so, is Santa treating you with one, or what?

Update: Looks like not everyone will snatch one of these before that fateful day in December, so we’d suggest either settling on a Kindle / Nook or preparing your wallet to deal with ‘Tickle Me Elmo’ levels of eBay insanity.

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Sony’s 3G-enabled Reader Daily Edition up for pre-order, content deals coming next month originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Canada gets International Kindle support, no longer feels inferior to Trinidad and Tobago originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve had a soft spot for Polymer Vision in the fetid hollows of that place you call a heart ever since we pressed flesh to its Readius back in February 2008. Unfortunately, we had to let go of any hope for the bendy e-reader to ever hit the market after delays turned into bankruptcy turned into cries of noooo! the world over. Now coddled in the corporate arms of Wistron we hear from Brian Chong, head of Wistron’s product planning, that a 5-to-6 inch device with a pull-out flexible e-paper display of similar design to the Readius will launch in 2010. By similar design we hope they’ve included Bluetooth, dual-band HSDPA, tri-band GSM / EDGE, microSD expansion and SMS capabilities of the original.

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Wistron: Readius-like ereader with pull-out flexible display launching in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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