The eBook Reader Blog

It’s been over 7 months since Amazon announced their new lineup of Kindle Scribes, and while the Colorsoft version and the BW frontlit model were released back in December, the Kindle Scribe without a frontlight has been mysteriously unavailable since then, but now Amazon has finally revealed a release date. There’s a banner at the […]

Pocketbook is adding a new 7″ ereader to their product line called the Pocketbook Era Lite. It’s getting released later this month (May 2026), and it comes with Pocketbook’s new Libby App pre-installed for borrowing ebooks from public libraries. They claim the Era Lite has a premium design with an “affordable price”, although they haven’t [...

I think I may have stumbled on a way to avoid getting software updates on Kindles: just don’t register them. Back in February I had to factory reset my 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite after I intentionally activated a bug that made it go haywire, and then I decided to keep it unregistered for a while […]

It looks like Onyx saw how popular Kobo’s new remote page turner was and they decided to release one of their own, and Onyx went in an entirely different direction with it. I didn’t even suspect it was a page turner when I first saw it; I’ve never seen one quite like this before. It […]

Amazon has released another software update for Kindles, but so far it’s only available for a few models. As of this writing, the 5.19.4 software update is available to download for the Kindle Colorsoft (but not the Scribe version), the 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite, and the 2022 Kindle Scribe. It’s weird to see the 2024 […]