Export to ePub

Instapaper offers a great download to ePub feature. It’s very handy when you want to read articles on your ereader. If you have a Mac, get Ephemera. This awesome tool syncs your ereader with your unread Instapaper articles. Just connect your device via USB and Ephemera does the trick!
What I want now is a print [...]

Bad ePub formatting

Two weeks ago I have bought an ebook on a web store. I have used Adobe Digital Editions to transfer it on my Cybook Opus, the only solution for all DRM ePub and PDF ebooks. But what was my surprise when I started reading the book on my ereader and noticed two ugly oversized left [...]

D’AccorD

Talking about the seventies, there is this great new band from Norway. They’re called D’Accord and their sound comes right up from that period. Their self-titled album was released last year and makes you rediscover old progressive rock. It has it all from flutes to great vocals. Stig A. Sund, the band guitarist is also responsible for [...]

R.I.P. Doug Fieger

Douge Fieger, lead guitarist and singer of The Knack passed away on the 14th of Feberuary. I’m sure you have at least listened to their 1979 hit My Sharona. This happens to be one of my favorite rock songs ever and the guitar solo is just amazing.
Thanks for the music!

About ebooks quality

Great and useful initiative by An American Editor. Since I have started reading my current book I can’t count the number of times I have noticed missing punctuation marks. The most common problem is no period at the end of a sentence. Sometimes the problem even repeats itself over several successive sentences. But so far [...]

Cybook Opus, firmware 2.0

Bookeen has released the new firmware on Christmas eve. The thing I am the most pleased with, is the bug fix for random freezes. They were rare but really annoying as you had to press the reset button near the battery. The power plus previous page combination was not working at all. Since the update [...]

‘The Good, The Band and The Ugly’ ukulele cover

Amazing and beautiful! More info at The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
Ennio Morricone forever!

SixthSense technology

SixthSense is the mind blowing technology invented by Pranav Mistry, a PhD student working at MIT.