Applications that let us read ebooks on ereaders, tablets, smartphones and laptop computers have been available for years. Especially young book lovers find it pretty natural to read on a five-inch smartphone screen, while older generations grab a tablet or … Read the story...
Did You Know Old Books Can Be Repaired? Watch How a Professional Does It
Many book lovers have old books that have been around in many hands and may show a varying level of wear and tear. If an old book is valuable or contains valid and useful information, it doesn’t make sense to … Read the story...
Kindle Textbook Creator Ebook App Gets Video and Audio Enhancements
Amazon Kindle Textbook Creator is a simple, but working PC application for converting PDF books into ebooks that can be read on Fire tablets and Kindle PC applications. The Textbook Creator was launched in January 2015, and now, three months … Read the story...
New Purchase Options for Scandinavian Ebook Readers
Amazon dominates many ebook markets across the globe, but there are some corners of the world where local ebook stores thrive. Scandinavia (in this case, only Sweden, Norway and Finland) is not an easy market for a large international company … Read the story...
The Best of Southern Sweden: the Sights, Cities and Activities
Sweden is such a large country that its southern part is totally different from Lapland in far north. Southern and South-Western regions don’t have harsh winters and summers are moderate. Southern Sweden has a rich history and cultural heritage from … Read the story...
The Best Up-and-Coming European Fiction Authors 2015
European Union has established an annual prize to promote European fiction authors who haven’t made a big breakthrough among big audiences yet. The prize, worth 5000 euros, is awarded to 12 authors who live in an EU country or in … Read the story...
Montreal Airport Promotes Local Authors by Providing Ebooks to Travelers
For many travelers, spending hours on an airplane is valuable time because it means a long uninterrupted period for reading books. Earlier, travelers used to buy pocketbooks from airport bookshops but nowadays ereaders or tablets carry our books. Montreal Trudeau … Read the story...
Book Subscription Service Oyster Opens a Bookstore for Ebook Downloads
Oyster, an online service that lets you read as many books as you have time for a monthly fee of $10, has opened a bookstore where ebooks can be downloaded for offline reading. Oyster doesn’t tell how many books it … Read the story...
Here is Where the Pyrenees Mountains End (or Start)
It is difficult to tell where large mountain ranges end (or where they start) when you are exploring a region. The Pyrenees is different: the other end of the mountain range plunges into the Atlantic Ocean and the other end … Read the story...
French book lovers are adopting ebooks
France has a long and wifely appreciated literary tradition, but some observers have asked will it survive if the nation doesn’t adopt new technologies and business models. In fact, one of the pioneers of e-reading comes from France: Bookeen. The … Read the story...
Paper Books Recycled: A House Made of Books
A house made of books? It has to be a library. Sure, but Lacuna project is more: it is really a building that has been constructed from books.
Lacuna is an art installation constructed from 50 000 books. It is … Read the story...
Free Ebooks for History and Art Lovers from Metropolitan Museum
Many museums publish beautiful paper books on art collections, historical objects and exhibitions they have. Print books, however, only have a limited life span. When books become too costly to print and keep in stock, they become unavailable. The Metropolitan … Read the story...