Sony Reader Pocket Edition: PRS-300 In Detail

We informed you earlier about Sony’s plans to release two new e-books onto the market at the end of August. Now we take a look in detail at one of those e-books, the Sony PRS-300 Reader Pocket Edition. Read more

Linux-based Amazon Kindle Reader: Price problem

Now there are many ways to come up with weighing out prices and to outweigh price costs and this one is by far in-depth. We are talking about the Linux-based Amazon Kindle Reader and indeed the price problem. Read more

Your Apple iPod Touch and Expressivo 1.4 with e-Book

The free collection of e-books - supplied with the version of Expressivo which speaks American English with the voice of Jennifer - includes 50 of the most popular literary works of the world made available as part of the Project Gutenberg. Users of Expressivo have free access to a collection of books including Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, James Joyce’s “Ulysses” or Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. Additionally at www.expressivo.com you can download, free of charge, other e-books and then play them on your computer or save them as MP3 files and then play them e.g. on an iPod. Such an MP3 book can be a perfect, eye-friendly entertainment during long holiday travels.

The new Expressivo also comes with an enhanced feature of converting text files into sound. With Expressivo 1.4 you can convert any text file into an MP3 file even 50 percent faster than with the previous version of the application.

Apart from the voices embedded in the software you can also add any other text-to-speech reader to Expressivo and enjoy the voices it generates in other languages. Up to now Expressivo could read only texts written in the Latin alphabet. This has changed in the 1.4 version as the application has been adapted to the international character encoding system, UNICODE. Now after adding the appropriate text-to-speech reader to the application, Expressivo can read texts written in any language of the world, including Arabic, Russian, Japanese or Chinese.

Expressivo 1.4’s other new attractive features include the new clock-reminder compatible with the Google Calendar! Clock-reminder will also read out the events planned in the calendar of your email application (e.g. MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird).

Expressivo is a computer application for anyone which can read any text with a human voice. It may also be used to facilitate learning of foreign languages or to read out film subtitles. Expressivo allows you also to listen to books, RSS feeds, Web pages, e-mails – not only via a computer but also via a portable MP3 player, such as iPod or iPhone. With Expressivo you can also easily create audiobooks. The affordable price makes it possible for virtually anyone to enjoy the text-to-speech technology with Expressivo. To find out more about Expressivo visit expressivo.com.

Leather and Multi-touch Combined for E-book Concept

Due to the fact that Kindle has been popular, it will in turn produce many more. There has been a concept designed by Nedzad Mujcinovic who is a student at Monash University.

This will incorporate using an e-ink screen with a Read more