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I recently got a hankering to re-read some of my favorite books. I already own them, in hardcover and paperback. But I'd like to re-read them as e-books. Do I need to buy the e-book versions, or can I download a pirated copy of the e-book for free?

Amazon has launched its latest Kindle: smaller, faster, lighter, less expensive. Can it compete with the Apple iPad, or those new Android tablets? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers offer their opinions. Not to mention those oh-so-depressing kids' cartoons...
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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will launch its new color Kindle tablet on Wednesday, it seems. At an effective rumored price of $171, it'll be stiff competition for the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad 3, let alone the current version. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look forward to true slate market competition -- at last! Not to mention: How to get a refund for an overpriced sandwich...

Some fact, some speculation, but as Apple delivers its million-selling iPad to international audiences (at a premium price), we're seeing broadcasters embracing HTML5 as that Apple TV 'hobby' looks ever more like a secret fourth weapon in Apple's future business strategy.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Facing a downturn in book buying, and competition from online e-books, publishers are increasingly turning to cell phones.

President Obama wants to simultaneously improve education while getting costs under control. School districts are so stressed financially that they're laying off teachers and ending valuable programs. Here's one modest proposal from the tech blogosphere: Get rid of paper textbooks in favor of digital books and materials for high school and college students as a way to both improve education and cut costs.

In the outside world, where technologically-related acronyms don't necessarily reign supreme, the term WGA doesn't refer to Windows Genuine Advantage, but to the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike for about a month to try to force the Hollywood studios to give them a bigger slice of the digital pie. And now writers of more traditional content are starting to wonder whether they need to worry as well.

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Half of Japan's bestselling books last year -- half! -- started out as cell phone-based books, according to the New York Times. Will cell phones become the medium of choice worldwide for novels and full-length non-fiction books?

Apple's newly released Guided Tour videos reveal the iPad as a formidable device for reading, sharing photos, watching video, and listening to music. It will transform personal entertainment the way the iPod transformed music.

I recently had the chance to play with the new Kobo Wireless eReader,and was impressed by its simplicity and usefulness. Sometimes, all you really want to do is just read.

With Instapaper, you can build a library of interesting news and magazine articles to download from the Web and read at leisure. The new version adds useful features.

The Kindle Cloud Reader lets you read your Kindle books with the Chrome browser, Safari for iPad and Safari for desktop. But how does Apple feels about that?

In all the excitement about the new color e-reader/tablets, not enough attention is being given to the the smaller and less expensive E-Ink e-readers that may, because of their approximately $100 price tags, be even more of an impulse buy than their sexier siblings.

MYKONOS, GREECE -- Everyone's talking about Amazon Kindle sales -- everyone except Amazon, that is. Sure, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' mouth is moving. He just isn't saying anything. Bezos said at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference this week that “There will be a second version, a third version, a tenth version (presumably there won't be fourth through ninth versions).

Matt Hamblen's recent article on e-book borrowing illustrates the difficulties libraries are facing in the digital age. It's too bad, because libraries are an important resource.