Register Guidelines E-Books Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read


Sat August 10 2024

MobileRead Week in Review: 08/03 - 08/10

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

If you've been a bit too busy to keep up, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past week.

E-Book General - News


Tue August 06 2024

One of our members and WordStar

12:22 PM by PeterT in E-Book General | News


https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/...the_last_ever/

WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free
The preferred tool of Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice and George R R Martin

Before WordPerfect, the most popular work processor was WordStar. Now, the last ever DOS version has been bundled and set free by one of its biggest fans.

WordStar 7.0d was the last-ever DOS release of the classic word processor, and it still has admirers today. A notable enthusiast is Canadian SF writer Robert J Sawyer, who wrote the book that became the TV series Flashforward.

Thanks to his efforts you can now try out this pinnacle of pre-Windows PC programs for professional prose-smiths. Sawyer has taken the final release, packaged it up along with some useful tools — including DOS emulators for modern Windows – and shared the result. Now you, too, can revel in the sheer unbridled power of this powerful app.

Robert is a long time MobileRead member, along with a keen user of the Kobo readers.

More details at https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806

[ 50 replies ]


Sat May 18 2024

MobileRead Week in Review: 05/11 - 05/18

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

There's been a whole heck of a lot of stuff happening this week. Purvey the below for your pleasure.

E-Book General - News


RIP Nobel Laureate Alice Munro

02:44 AM by Critteranne in E-Book General | News

The acclaimed Canadian writer has died at 92. She was particularly well-known for her short stories.

Here is a link to the AP article (via MSN).

[ 6 replies ]


Sat May 04 2024

MobileRead Week in Review: 04/27 - 05/04

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Once again, our weekly roundup of highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Book General - News


Mon April 29 2024

Colour Kobo ereaders Available 30th April

10:45 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

Kobo announced earlier this month that they would be releasing Kobo models using the E-Ink Kaleido 3 colour screens on 30th April.

There will be two colour models:

  • The Kobo Libra Colour with a 7" screen
  • The Kobo Clara Colour with a 6" screen

There will also be a new 6" B&W model, the Kobo Clara BW

UK page
US page
Canada page
EU page

The 6" Kobo Clara Colour will be £139.99, $149.99, CAD$179.99, €159.99
The 7" Kobo Libra Colour will be £199.99, $219.99, CAD$249.99, €229.99

See discussion here and here.

[ 81 replies ]


Wed April 03 2024

RIP Brian Lumley

02:40 AM by tdanzie in E-Book General | News

I was not aware, and do not see any information listed here.


https://www.brianlumley.com


I have been enjoying his Necroscope® series.

He will be missed.

[ 12 replies ]


Sat March 23 2024

RIP, Vernor Vinge

10:16 AM by Dazrin in E-Book General | News

I know there are a few fans here who would like to know. I've not read anything of his yet but do have him on my TBR list.

https://boingboing.net/2024/03/21/ha...ead-at-79.html

[ 15 replies ]




live view Latest Forum Activity
Thread / Thread Starter Last Post
Today 10:55 AM
by tubemonkey (#11232) Go to first new post
Today 10:36 AM
by elinkser (#7) Go to first new post
Today 10:30 AM
by David Welch (#0) Go to first new post
Forum: PocketBook
Today 10:17 AM
by neil_swann80 (#2) Go to first new post
Forum: Viewer
Today 10:16 AM
by james5d (#2) Go to first new post
Today 10:10 AM
by chip0712 (#2062) Go to first new post
Forum: Plugins
Today 10:09 AM
by theducks (#1883) Go to first new post
Forum: PocketBook
Today 10:00 AM
by Mr Avid (#6) Go to first new post
Forum: Lounge
Today 09:51 AM
by Hemmi (#151453) Go to first new post
Forum: ePub
Today 09:35 AM
by Turtle91 (#9) Go to first new post
Unutterably Silly Guilt by association (ahammer)
Forum: Lounge
Today 08:57 AM
by issybird (#9913) Go to first new post
Forum: Plugins
Today 08:51 AM
by thiago.eec (#25) Go to first new post
Forum: Plugins
Today 08:32 AM
by xxyzz (#693) Go to first new post
Forum: Lounge
Today 08:14 AM
by Martinoptic (#23397) Go to first new post
Unutterably Silly Change One Word (Nyssa)
Forum: Lounge
Today 08:11 AM
by Martinoptic (#55662) Go to first new post
Today 07:31 AM
by Sirtel (#1) Go to first new post
Forum: Amazon Kindle
Today 07:23 AM
by Musrar (#0) Go to first new post
Today 06:24 AM
by salty-horse (#8546) Go to first new post
Today 06:20 AM
by Dr. Drib (#2969) Go to first new post
Today 06:15 AM
by sufue (#17380) Go to first new post
Today 06:11 AM
by ownedbycats (#3021) Go to first new post
Forum: News
Today 06:09 AM
by andyh2000 (#6) Go to first new post
Today 06:01 AM
by sufue (#7874) Go to first new post
Forum: News
Today 05:44 AM
by DrChiper (#50) Go to first new post
Forum: KOReader
Today 05:37 AM
by Lukusaukko (#0) Go to first new post


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:10 AM.
MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.
https://www.mobileread.com/?s=dbe0e77507130c40a3f50841db1d7fa6
www.mobileread.com
CC-MAIN-2024-38
61682
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:JJEON7QPDR77OPNCFQVAX7TT7TISZUO3
<urn:uuid:f2650d9b-1d77-4686-9373-8e5c9fba87d0>
2024-09-16T15:10:03Z
162.55.243.172
text/html
sha1:U75ANLCHQV32NHKM2DPITINTSDATYF5L
<urn:uuid:a5a09cfb-ce17-4e95-8bdb-4766cf6b3ad0>
https://www.mobileread.com/?s=dbe0e77507130c40a3f50841db1d7fa6
response
<urn:uuid:06ef719b-e1c0-4685-bf1a-126391758593>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2024-38
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for September 2024
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-94
software: Apache Nutch 1.20 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.5-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/