Amazon has added 5.20.1 to its Kindle software updates page. It covers every Kindle Scribe and every Kindle e-reader released in 2024 or later. The odd part: some devices are already running 5.20.1.0.1, a build that isn't on the page at all. The new 2026 Kindles aren't listed yet either, so the...

PocketBook Verta vs Verse Pro: quad-core speed and a 140 g body against IPX8 waterproofing. Here's which 6-inch reader fits your reading habits.

PocketBook's next 6-inch pair has surfaced on its own store before any formal announcement: the Verta and the Verta Color. Both are listed as "coming soon", both look aimed squarely at the Verse line, and both land in the same week Amazon is pushing its refreshed Kindles. The headline isn't the...

Prime Big Deal Days returns October 6–7, 2026. What to expect on Kindle and e-ink tablet deals, Kindle Unlimited and Audible offers, and how to shop smart.

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft vs Boox Note Air6 C vs Penstar eNote Pro C: which color E Ink screen handles text, fine lines and art best, and which to buy.

Both current front-lit Kindle Scribe models are discounted ahead of Prime Big Deal Days, and unlike the refurbished option below, they don't appear to need a Prime membership: Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft 64GB – currently $479.99, $150 off Amazon Kindle Scribe 32GB with front light –...

The original Kindle went on sale in November 2007, which puts the 20th anniversary in 2027 — and Amazon apparently intends to mark it with more than a cake emoji on the lock screen. Two things are on the table: a refresh of the Kindle operating system as a whole, and special anniversary...

Most of the grumbling about the new lineup has been about the devices themselves. But look at the accessory prices side by side and the story is just as interesting, maybe more so. Rising RAM and component costs are the explanation Amazon and everyone else are pointing to for electronics prices...

Library magazines were the one big piece of Libby that never made it onto an e-reader. On PocketBook, that just changed. Firmware 6.11.1437 adds magazine support to PocketBook's built-in Libby app. Combined with the ebook and audiobook borrowing that was already there, PocketBook now covers all...

If you were planning to have the Kindle Click in hand on launch day, it may already be too late for that. The Amazon Kindle Click is still listed for release on October 28, 2026, but anyone pre-ordering in the US right now is being quoted a delivery date of November 11 at the fastest, or...

Kindle 2026 vs Kindle 2024: flush screen, side power button and an aluminum version, but still no warm light. See which base Kindle is worth buying.

Kindle Colorsoft 2026 vs 2024 compared: redesigned color display, thinner body, aluminum Signature Edition and button-cover support. See which one to buy.

Six new Kindles, a Bluetooth remote and a button cover — all in one announcement. Amazon hasn't refreshed the whole range at once like this in years. So the obvious question: is anyone here actually buying? The full model-by-model breakdown is in the new Kindle lineup overview, so this thread...

Prime Big Deal Days returns October 6–7, 2026. What to expect on Kindle and e-ink tablet deals, Kindle Unlimited and Audible offers, and how to shop smart.

Vendor: Rakuten Kobo eReader Store Type: Refurbished eReader Price: 79.99 Escape into a story, learn something new, and remember why reading is fun. Kobo Nia’s a big deal in a small package: you can carry up to 6,000 eBooks with its 8GB of storage. Bask in the sun with your favourite read...

Kindle Paperwhite 2026 vs 2024 compared: thinner design, new display stack, aluminum Signature Edition and page-turn cover support. See which to buy.

Amazon's new Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Colorsoft lineup explained: six models, aluminum options, page-turn accessories, prices and which one to pick.

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Amazon has started the Prime Big Deal Days run-up with bundles rather than bare devices. Almost every current Kindle is discounted as a bundle with an Amazon cover, and the Kids bundles are included too. The catch: the bundle prices aren't expected to drop further when the event itself starts...

Vendor: Rakuten Kobo eReader Store Type: Refurbished eReader Price: 159.99 The next-generation Kobo Libra 2 is the embodiment of your reading style. With more storage, a faster E Ink screen, and Bluetooth® wireless technology so you can listen to Kobo Audiobooks*, Kobo Libra 2 is an...

Boox Picco first look: metal build, a strong front light and USB-C, but every EPUB must be converted first. See who the $99 pocket reader suits.

Didn't see this one coming. Onyx has started pushing an Android 13 update to the Boox Go 6 Gen II — the pocket reader that launched in June on Android 11 and got hammered for it. For a company that almost never touches the Android version after release, that's a big deal. Or at least an...

Amazon's started rolling out its early Prime Big Deal Days offers, and unlike most years, the subscription deals showing up right now look more interesting than the device discounts. What's on offer Kindle Unlimited: some accounts are seeing a 3-month free trial. Eligibility varies — it's...

Anyone who's flashed both firmwares on the X4 Pro has probably landed on a similar conclusion: neither one is just objectively better, they're optimized for different priorities. Worth laying out where each one actually wins, since the differences aren't just cosmetic. Where CrossSync still has...

What's Happening Kobo is piloting support for CloudLibrary, the library lending platform that competes with OverDrive/Libby. Select libraries in Canada and the US are in a trial this month, with a wider rollout planned for October covering the Kobo Clara Color, Kobo Clara BW, and Kobo Libra...

New Features A "Create your own adventure" writing game -- interactive storytelling with an AI managing the world you create E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow selecting multiple highlights and right clicking to change their style Cover grid: Allow choosing which corner of the cover emblems...

The Xteink S4 is now shipping. There's a catch, though: it's on sale in China only, and it's still not clear whether it will ever get an official international release. That matters more than usual here, because the S4 is the first Xteink reader that runs Android. For many people that's the...

So the mystery OS question on the Boox Picco finally has an answer, or most of one. Firmware that has already reached outside hands reportedly shows it runs a custom fork of CrossPoint — not an official CrossPoint build, but Onyx's own branch of it. Onyx itself has now confirmed the Picco sits...

After IFA, the Picco's price was still a guess. Now there's an actual number: Boox's store page lists the Boox Picco at $99 (US Store / EU Store). Some coverage already calls it available, but when this was posted the page didn't let you place an order yet. The Picco also wasn't part of Boox's...

The Palma was always the odd one out in Boox's lineup: a phone-shaped reader that isn't a phone. With the Boox Palma 3 (US / EU), Boox is making it feel more like a premium device, not changing what it is. It's listed at $339.99 on the Boox store, but only as "coming soon." There's no release...

People have been asking for a mid-size color Boox for a long time. The Boox Note Mini C is that device, but it breaks one rule every Note model has followed so far: the pen isn't EMR. It's listed as "coming soon," with no release date. US launch coverage puts it at $579, the same price as the...

Boox Note Air6 C review: a much faster chip, cleaner color rendering and usable handwriting search. See who should buy it and who can skip it.

Amazon has confirmed the dates for its second Prime sale of the year: Prime Big Deal Days runs October 6–7, starting at 12:01 a.m. PDT. Is it worth holding off on a Kindle purchase for this sale, or is Black Friday, seven weeks later, the better bet? What's confirmed so far 48 hours of...

Prime Big Deal Days returns October 6–7, 2026. What to expect on Kindle and e-ink tablet deals, Kindle Unlimited and Audible offers, and how to shop smart.

The Kindle Scribe Premium Pen is currently discounted on Amazon in the US, Canada, and UK — $47.99 versus its usual $79.99. Both the tungsten and metallic jade versions are at the same price. What you get over the basic stylus: Top-mounted digital eraser, dedicated rather than a software...

Anyone who's been refreshing Xteink's site waiting for an actual buy button can stop — the X4 Classic just went live on Xteink's own Amazon storefront, with delivery estimated for next week. There's a catch. Only Space Black is listed right now. Mist Gray isn't there yet, so anyone who wanted...

The apps themselves are the less interesting half of this. eBooks.com has released new reading apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, built with the European Digital Reading Lab and the Swedish firm Colibrio. That pairing is the signal. The apps are one piece of the store shifting its whole...

Well, that didn't take long. Xteink has walked back its all-pogo charging strategy, and it's a pretty direct result of how loud the complaints got. For anyone who missed the backstory: the original X4 shipped with USB-C, and it's arguably what put Xteink on the map in the first place. Every...

Kobo CEO Michael Tambyn went on Bluesky this week to address something a lot of multi-device readers have complained about for years: bookmarks and reading progress not lining up between an e-reader, the app, and the cloud reader. His words were blunt about it — "driven slowly crazy,"...

The Bigme B6 Pro Color pairs a 6-inch Kaleido 3 screen and full Google Play with a weak stylus and a storage spec in dispute. Full review.

Something worth flagging if you've been tracking Kindle's color lineup. The original 32GB Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition — the one that launched back in October 2024 — has quietly gone unavailable on Amazon. And this isn't a single-market glitch: it's marked the same way on the US site, the...

Back on Friday, the only thing anyone had to go on was Xteink's own teaser page. That's changed — the Xteink X4 Classic is now actually shipping, and the first hands-on impressions are landing. The headline surprise: it's not just thinner than the original X4, it's reportedly thinner than the...

Back in July the Picco was two promotional images and a very long list of unknowns. Boox has now put working units in front of people at IFA in Berlin, and most of those unknowns have answers. Most. Not the one everybody actually wants. What the show units showed Hardware first. The device is...

The Capture Tool got all the attention when 3.28 was in beta, and it is a genuinely useful addition. But now that the release has gone wide, the part worth arguing about is the reading side — the EPUB experience was reworked in a way that touches everyone who uses one of these as an ebook reader...

What Just Changed Two product pages for the Xteink X4 Pro have appeared on Xteink's Amazon storefront, one for Space Black and one for Mist Gray. Neither can be ordered yet. Listings without a buy button usually mean stock is on its way rather than already sitting in a warehouse, so the useful...

Anyone still holding out for a new panel generation before upgrading may want to sit down. Supply-chain chatter now puts E Ink Carta 1400 at mass production somewhere in 2027, not later this year as previously rumored. Panel samples have reportedly gone out to the usual manufacturing partners —...

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft trades deep note-taking tools for instant search and AI recall. Here's who that trade-off suits — and who should look elsewhere.

Xteink has put the X4 Classic up on its own site and started teasing it on social media, so the replacement for the discontinued X4 is now more or less confirmed. No order button yet, no firm date — late September looks like the realistic window. The short version: it's the original X4 with a...

EinkWise is the part of recent BOOX firmware that most owners either ignore completely or end up living in. It sits behind the swipe-down panel on the home screen (or a gesture, if you have one mapped), and it lets you set display behaviour per third-party app rather than fighting one global...

Two jailbreaks in three weeks is unusual for the Kindle scene, and the second one takes a very different approach from the first. SpiderCat does away with the setup work entirely. You download a book through the Kindle's own web browser — or sideload the file over USB if you'd rather — and open...