The eBook Reader Blog

Amazon released a new Kindle last week, and it seems to have gone largely unnoticed. New Kindles getting released used to be a pretty big deal, but nobody seems to care about the new Kindle Scribe without a frontlight. The Kindle brand alone used to carry enough weight to get people’s attention, and there was […]

Woot is doing another round of “refurbished” Kindle sales that will probably sell out quickly, like usual, but if you want a Kindle for really cheap now is the time to get one. They have the 1st gen Kindle Scribe, the 11th gen Kindle from 2022, and the 11th gen Kindle Paperwhite from 2021. All […]

Amazon has released a software update for two previous gen Kindle models that haven’t been updated in over a year, the 10th gen Paperwhite (also know as the Paperwhite 4) and the 10th gen Kindle, that breaks the ability to jailbreak them, and makes it harder to remove the DRM from Kindle ebooks. If you […]

I’ve been seeing a few different posts online about Amazon offering special “upgrade” deals for select Kindle customers that have older Kindles registered to their account, and the deals are surprisingly good. Some people are getting offers for the Kindle Paperwhite at $99, or $115 for the upgraded Signature Edition model, and the Kindle Colorsoft […]

If you use Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) to manage your purchased ebooks, you might be asked to sign-in using a new system at some point in the future that requires setting up a ByteBooks account, and it’s recommended to use the same email account you used with Adobe. Adobe has “transitioned” their ebook platform to […]