The Kindle Paperwhite: it’s great, buy it! Fine, fine, I’ll do an actual review – but the above is a pretty good summary of how the following few paragraphs are going to go. My previous experience of a Kindle was with the original, which worked well enough but had the downsides of being laggy … [Read more...]
Kobo Glo Review – great alternative to Kindle’s walled garden
Is the Kobo Glo better than the Kobo Touch? Yes it is. That's probably all you need to know if you're currently waging a Kobo Glo Vs Kobo Touch war. I'd worried that the lit screen might be too taxing on the eyes -- after all, the e-paper is meant to mimic real paper not the bright, … [Read more...]
Why my Kindle is changing the way I read
Stuart wrote a great article about long reads and his Kindle over on his blog. We asked him if we could reproduce it here. He obliged us. Enjoy! When I was weighing up whether to get an Amazon Kindle I’m not sure if I thought it would make me read more. I usually had a book on the go, so I … [Read more...]
Book Lights for geeks: Star Wars, Doctor Who, Toy Story Kindle Lights
Pregnancy insomnia means I need to have access to my Kobo eBook Reader in the middle of the night. Currently, I'm using a trusty head torch, but I'm on the lookout for the perfect LED eBook light to clip onto the case. Here are some of the best book lights I've found so far. Peppa Pig Book … [Read more...]
Forget 50 Shades, what you need is some Vaginal Fantasy with Felicia Day
Ever since my good friend bought me a copy of Kresley Cole’s “Hunger like no other” as a joke for my birthday I’ve been hooked on a certain type of fantasy novel. Now I love hobbits as much as the next girl and don’t get me started on rangers from the north, but the stories I'm talking about are … [Read more...]
50 Shades of Grey – The five worst tech sins Anastasia and Christian commit
If you have recently suffered the trauma of reading all the books in the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy back-to-back, you may need -- as I did -- to work off some of the self-loathing with a cathartic read of the 50 Shades of Suck blog from start to finish (I cried more than Ana after a session in the … [Read more...]