Naturally, Worldreader’s heartwarming mission is worth writing and reading about – since our first story about the nonprofit in 2012, the group has manged to distribute over 10,000 kindles to 3,000 word-hungry kids and are on their way to sharing nearly half a million ebooks to those eager, young readers. continued…

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Apparently, I’m not the only bibliophile to be challenged by the joys of paper reading and the convenience of eReaders. According to a recent article in the Scientific American, “reading on paper still boasts unique advantages.”  The article cites research indicating that reading from physical formats gives us the possibility of creating a map of the textual narrative and eReaders lack this mental representation. Most eReaders are improving at superhuman speeds, but they are missing the intuitive navigational features that we have become accustomed to learning from. continued…

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The new eInk device from Kobo has a 6.8″ screen which boasts a 265 dpi resolution, slightly more than the Kindle Paperwhite which has 212 ppi on a 6.7″ display. The new Kobo weighs slightly more than the Amazon device at 8.5 oz, compared with the 7.8 oz. Kindle.

The Kobo device has a 1GHz processor and claims to turn pages 25 percent faster than other devices. The new eReader comes with 4GB of storage though, owners can expand this up to 32GB. The Kindle has 2G and access to the Amazon Cloud.

Kobo claims that the new device’s battery life can last up to two months. It comes in a few colors including: ivory, espresso and onyx. The device goes on presale tomorrow on Kobo.com and through select retailers. continued…

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The app is extremely social – like a reading party across the interwebs. Bookworms can highlight passages that can be shared shared across various social platforms and discussed amongst readers on Readmill’s internal social network. You can also view highlights from other users in your current book, while tweeting your author’s twitter handle.

Your Readmill’s bookshelf is supported by a personal cloud storage space that’s accessible from any iOS device. Readmill currently supports various eBook formats like PDF, Adobe DRM, and ePub. Readers can purchase more books from over 30 retailers including Kobo and Feedbooks. Readmill is highly unlikely to team up with popular bookseller, Amazon, who has its own social book club, Shelfari.

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To help you navigate through all of the choices that are available for sale this holiday season, we’ve put together a list of the top 5 eReaders that are newly available this year. Each entry includes the name of the device, the price and some details that summarize the tablet’s features. (If you are shopping for a tablet, check out our list of the top 5 tablets to give this holiday season).

1. Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight: This $119 6-inch eReader from Barnes & Noble brings the best features of an eInk touch screen eReader into a device that lets you read in the dark. The GlowLight lights the screen with a soft back light. The perfect device for readers who like to read in bed in a dark room. It also has an anti-glare screen for reading in sunlight. continued…

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Below, we’ve included an infographic they created to show massive digital book growth at libraries, including the fact that 39 percent of libraries have eReaders available for check-out.

Here’s more from GalleyCat: “The American Library Association released an E-Book Media and Communications Toolkit, helping libraries campaign for digital book access. The package includes statistics, graphics, reporter contact advice, sample public service announcement scripts, and templates for writing op-eds and letters to the editor.”

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This 5″ ereader takes hardware minimalism to an extreme. Weighing in at just 128 grams, the Beagle lacks Wifi and a card slot. It’s even missing the USB port found on most ereaders these days. Instead the Beagle is powered by a couple AAA batteries, and ebooks are transferred onto it via Bluetooth.

This ereader isn’t available yet, but when it is you’re going to need txtr’s Android app to load up its 4GB of storage. The app was just updated yesterday, and support for the Beagle is only available for gadgets running Android 4.0 and above. Txtr plans to also update their iOS app so it too can support this ereader.

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56 Broken Kindle Screens – Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg (2012) from Silvio Lorusso on Vimeo.
You often hear about eBooks being made available as print on demand books, but digital artists Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso have connected the two media in a new way. They have created a print on demand book project called 56 Broken Kindle Screens, which is a photo book that documents the downside to eBooks, broken eReaders.

Here is more about the book: “The book takes as its starting point the peculiar aesthetic of broken E Ink displays and serves as an examination into the reading device’s materiality. As the screens break, they become collages composed of different pages, cover illustrations and interface elements.”

The POD book is available from Lulu.com and its currently on sale for $4.90. We’re embedded a video of the project above. (Via BoingBoing).

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Who didn’t love Reading Rainbow as a kid?  The iconic 80s show used songs, celebrities and video to actually make literature fun. Well, times they do change. And the show’s onetime host, LeVar Burton, says that Reading Rainbow just wouldn’t work on TV today and, furthermore, the days of printed books are also numbered.

“I don’t know what the time frame is, but I do know that at some point, cutting down trees to make books is not sustainable. It’s just one of those things we’re gonna have to get over ourselves about, right? Like oil consumption, it’s just not sustainable,” he explained in our latest Media Beat interview. ”So, we’re looking at a future, whenever it comes, that we’re gonna consume most of the reading that we do on some kind of electronic device or another. We will still have printed books; they’ll never go away. I think our emotional attachment to them is too strong. What it will do, I believe, though is make the books that we own more valuable to us, more precious.”

(And watch the full interview for a freakin’ awesome homage to that beloved RR theme song.)

Part 2: Tuesday, Burton introduces us to the new Reading Rainbow app.
Part 3: Wednesday, we discuss Burton’s role in Roots and how he achieved longevity in Hollywood.

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This ereader looks much the same as the previous model, and it even has the same screen, touchscreen, storage, and other specs. It even appears to be running Android, just like its predecessor. And while it does lack the headphone jack found on the previous model, it also gained a couple new software features. continued…

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Barnes & Noble has just announced the “Nook Touch with GlowLight”. They’re building on the same Nook Touch hardware with its 6″E-ink screen, and they’ve added a light to the screen.

As you probably know, an E-ink screen cannot emit light like an LCD screen, it can only reflect it. This means that any light which is integrated with an ereader must be placed in front of the screen. That’s what B&N has done here.

B&N is boasting that battery life is over a month, but they do not state how long the battery will last with the light on. Also, it’s clear that the new Nook Touch has some significant changes in the hardware; it’s nearly half an ounce lighter than the regular Nook Touch.

The new Nook is up for pre-order today for $139 at www.nook.com and it scheduled to arrive in stores and ship starting in early May, making a perfect gift for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduations.

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Along with cell phones, computers, printers, DVD players, scanners, TVs and mp3 players, the city is accepting eReaders and tablets at its Spring 2012 NYC SAFE Disposal Events, where city residents can safely recycle used electronics among other things. (The Manhattan event will take place in Union Square on Sunday April 22, 10-4 pm).

According to NYC’s brochure, “Electronics will be responsibly recycled or refurbished for reuse through a manufacture-funded program.”

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100 students in 3 AP Biology classes at this 5,300 student school will be given the chance to test the latest in ereader technology.  The Jetbook Color is equipped with a 9.7″ Triton E-ink screen. This is the first color epaper screen to ship, and it’s now being tested in schools in Russia. continued…

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