E‑Readers & Apps

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (648+ words) in 2026 Lifehacker Unless you're shopping from a wishlist, buying a book for a big reader is always a fraught prospect Have they read it? Will they like it? Will they be offended at the mere suggestion that you think it's…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (340+ words) Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.15 today as a new stable update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. Coming three weeks after Calibre 9.14, the Calibre 9.15 release introduces a new, optional…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (494+ words) I used to read books simply because I wanted to know what happened next. Now, I'm learning to pay attention to why I want to keep reading. Why did that chapter feel slow? Why did I suddenly care about that…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (488+ words) If you already pay for Amazon Prime, your membership comes with more reading perks than you might realize. Amazon gives Prime members access to free books and short stories through Amazon First Reads and Amazon Original Stories. You can read…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (634+ words) Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments via a five-year pilot to build daily reading habits among a phone-first population Singapore’s National Library Board launched ReadSG on 6 September 2026, a five-year national reading campaign that converts logged reading time into virtual coins…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (852+ words) What if you could earn money simply by picking up a book and reading for 15 minutes a day? Singapore is giving its citizens a reason to swap some of their doomscrolling time for reading, with a new government-backed initiative that…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (613+ words) An EPUB can look completely healthy in Apple Books, Calibre, or another reading app and still lose its cover—or be rejected outright—when it goes through Send to Kindle. That seems contradictory until you stop thinking of EPUB as…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (29+ words) Print forced curation and built shared experiences. Today’s personalized feeds fragment us into echo chambers. Physical reading connected us in ways …...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (494+ words) For a generation used to typing LOL, BRB, IDK and TBH, reading a few pages of a book can almost feel like a deliberate act of patience. Now, Singapore is putting a small price on that patience. Singapore has launched…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (518+ words) ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Little Free Libraries are for more than printed reading materials. Users of the streetside stations give and receive all manner of non-reading merchandise, such as homemade trinkets, canned goods and garden seeds. This all occurs with the…...