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I will show you where you can find manga and how you can download them and read them on your Kindle e-readers.

First of all, the reading of digital manga is exploding in the world. It is particularly noticeable in Japan where there are more readers of digital manga than paper ones.

But, I think that the "manga ebook" has also the possibility to develop widely outside Japan.

Indeed, because of the absence of color, digital manga weighs less to store than other comics. Moreover, as they are already published in a small format in paper version, e-readers with a screen with a high resolution are at ease for their display (even in 6 inches).

If we add to this the available 7 and 8 inch e-readers and low cost touch tablets, we can think that manga can make a nice digital place in our reading devices.

The problem now is that we don’t necessarily have digital versions of all the manga that are released…

The Kindle Library

At Amazon, there is a comic book section that allows you to see, on a case-by-case basis, if the volume you are looking for is available on the Kindle e-reader (or the reading application on tablet, smartphone or PC/Mac).

For popular series like Naruto, the digital version costs $4.99 compared to $6 for the paper version. So that’s a nice savings of almost $2 per episode.

What is not bad is that you can search directly and only in the mangas that are available in digital using the search engine of your Kindle e-reader (or on Amazon).

So you can find a lot of things, even if everything is not yet present. I also noticed that recent releases tend to come out in digital too.

So, reissues like GUNNM, have their digital version.

Prime Reading or Kindle Unlimited

With Amazon, you can subscribe to a service like Prime or Kindle Unlimited.

Kindle Unlimited offer the larger choice but you’ll have to pay a small fee each mounth to access the books and the mangas available.

If you have an Amazon Prime membership, you can access to a catalogue of free ebooks and mangas and the Prime Reading (read this article to know more about it) section of the Kindle Library on your Kindle e-reader. (no extra fee if you already a Prime customer)

Transfer PDF, CBR and CBZ files to your Kindle e-reader

If you’re interested in digital comics, you’ve probably come across files in slightly exotic formats like CBR or CBZ. Here’s how to convert them to PDF.

> Note : there is a full tutorial on the website to help you read CBR et CBA on Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite (click here).

The CBR or CBZ format requires the use of special software to read them.

Fortunately, thanks to Calibre you can transform these files into PDF files that are easier to use on your different devices: e-readers, tablets, smartphones, PC and Mac.

The advantage of using Calibre to do the conversion is that it offers optimizations regarding the images, in order to display the comics more clearly on a reader (with a black and white screen). But, you can also use another software to do the conversion.

The first thing to do is to install Calibre if you don’t have it on your computer yet. You can go to this site to download it: https://calibre-ebook.com/fr/download

Now you have to import your CBR or CBZ file into Calibre.

You can now transfer PDF, CBR and CBZ to your Kindle device.

If you wan to choose the right e-reader for reading manga you can read this article.

You can find a lot of informations about e-Reader from all brands on this website.

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If you want to read a lot more, you will have to turn to digital reading. Today, it is possible to use websites to download free ebooks, comics but also audio books.

This article gathers the best websites to download free books in English and also in other languages.

These lists are not exhaustive, but they allow access to a large number of freely accessible contents.

Download free books in English

• Free ebooks on Amazon : you can find a lot of free ebooks to download on Amazon
• Amazon Prime Reading : if you are a Prime member, you can download ebooks for free from bestsellers and known authors (see Prime Reading to know more)
• https://archive.org/details/texts : a reference site with texts in all languages, including a very large selection in English
• https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/ : scientific books (especially programming) in all languages
• http://www.gutenberg.org/ : the site with free books in all languages
• https://standardebooks.org : a very good quality selection (in English)
• https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/ : again, the ebooks are very well designed and perfectly adapted to the e-readers
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page : a site of the Wikipedia group which aims to make great texts in English accessible to as many people as possible (you can also read them online)
• http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/browse/ : free Arabic digital books (ebooks) to download (المجموعات العربية على الانترنت)
• https://www.obooko.com/: a collection of 3000 free ebooks

Download free books in French

• http://fr.feedbooks.com/publicdomain : French books to download for free
• https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ : a nice interface and a site with many free ebooks
• http://www.noslivres.net/
• http://efele.net/ebooks/
• http://www.bibebook.com/
• http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/fr
• https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Accueil : More than 300 000 great texts in French
• Galica : the website of the BnF archives
• https://www.chineancienne.fr/ : free books and texts about China
• https://libretheatre.fr/ : free plays to download
• [https://archive.org/details/texts?and[]=languageSorter%3A%22French%22](https://archive.org/details/texts?and[]=languageSorter%3A%22French%22) : hundreds of thousands of books (you have to search a bit, but there are some nice things)

Download free comic books in English (manga, comics)

You can find many online comic books for free download on this list of websites:

• https://www.comixology.com/ : you just have to create an account to have access to a lot of albums in English (often tomes 1 of series) – there are also regular promotional offers
• https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/ : US Comics from the golden age with western, SF, horror, superheroes (you just have to create an account to download for free)
• https://comicbookplus.com/ : again, comics from the golden age of American comics
• https://imagecomics.com/comics/read-first-issues

Download free audiobooks in English and other languages

If you practice English or another language and want to learn and develop your listening skills, you can also download free audio books in English from these sites :

• https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 : audio book in English
• http://www.loyalbooks.com/ : a bit of everything
• https://librivox.org/
• https://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
• https://www.storynory.com/ : audiobooks for children in English
• https://www.digitalbook.io/ : free audiobooks and ebooks
• The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection : Thousands of free and open audiobooks powered by Microsoft AI
• Lit2Go : a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format

Download free audiobooks in French

If you want to enjoy your free time by listening to books in French, here is a list of websites that will allow you to download and listen to audio books for free:

• https://archive.org/details/AuFilDesLectures : a selection of classic texts
• http://www.litteratureaudio.com/ : a reference with many free and high quality audio books in French
• https://www.audiocite.net/
• http://www.bibliboom.com/
• http://www.loyalbooks.com/language/French
• https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=2&search_category=language&search_page=1&search_form=get_results : some audio books that you can't find elsewhere

Pocketbook continues to release innovative models and the announcement of the Pocketbook Viva e-reader will delight fans of high-end reading material and those who have been waiting for a new generation color e-reader.

Presentation of the Pocketbook Viva e-reader

The Pocketbook Viva is a high-end 8-inch color e-reader announced for the end of 2023.

It is also one of the first readers that will use a new generation color screen based on E Ink Gallery 3 technology with a resolution of 1440 × 1920 pixels for both black and white and color.

This is a brand new way of displaying colors that should allow, finally, to have more vivid colors than on the old screens of the “Kaleido” type used, for example, in the old Pocketbook Color reader.

Of course, we’ll have to wait for the release of this Pocketbook Viva to find out for sure…

Pocketbook also seems to want to offer a very high-end color reader, since the announced price is $599!

This price will certainly cool some people down, but it shows the will of the brand to offer high quality material as far as the color reader is concerned.

This is especially true since it is not a digital notebook like the Kindle Scribe or the Kobo Elipsa…

The Pocketbook Viva offers a new 8-inch color screen, 64 GB of storage memory, an IPX8 certification to make the reader waterproof and the possibility to read audio books (see specifications below) and a pretty good design with physical buttons.

I appreciate this new design which tends to become more and more common with each Pocketbook release, as with the Pocketbook Era, another high-end e-reader.

Specifications of the Pocketbook Viva

Here are the technical specifications of the Pocketbook Viva :

• Quad core processor
  
• 8 Inch Color display Gallery 3
  
• Resolution : high resolution of 1440 × 1920 and 300 PPI for both color and black-and-white
  
• IPX8 waterproff specification
  
• Built-in speaker and Text-to-Speech
  
• Bluetooth version 5.2
  
• 64 GB of built-in memory – for a large library, which is always at hand;
  
• A record number of formats without conversion – PocketBook Viva supports 23 formats (19 book and 4 graphic formats), including formats of comics;
  
• Support for 6 audiobook formats – listen to audio files in M4A, M4B, OGG, OGG.ZIP, MP3, MP3.ZIP formats;
  
• Dual band Wi-Fi and PocketBook Cloud services – for synchronization with other devices and convenient management of the library;
  
• The vast number of dictionaries – in addition to 11 pre-installed language combinations, users have 42 combinations available for free download.
  

Price and release date

As you may know, the Pocketbook brand is distributed all over the world (except in France where it is Vivlio that sells Pocketbook e-readers).

Pocketbook now announces an availability in many countries in the start of 2024. On the Pocketbook Store website the e-reader is on “Pre-Order” that will end in february 2024.

It should be noted that the price is high since the recommended retail price is $599 – which seems quite high for a e-reader, even if it is the best color e-reader available!

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This is the place to find informations about e-readers and ebook reading device with electric ink (e-ink).

You are on the site of e-readers and ebooks (digital books). To begin with, you can consult the e-reader reviews and get the latest news by browsing the different articles on the website. Finally, you can then head to our buying guide to find the best e-reader to access all the comparisons.

Kobo e-readers are already provided with various dictionaries that allow you to get definitions of words in English, but also English translations from other languages.

Unfortunately, some of the dictionaries used are not sufficient for the taste of some Kobo users. We can often see these defects:

1. A lack of definition
2. A lack of freshness

If the role of Kobo (and other e-reader manufacturers) is first and foremost to provide a reliable material for displaying pages of text, it is true that this defect may bother some people.

Fortunately, there is now a solution! It is indeed possible to change the default dictionary and we will see how to add a new dictionary with many more definitions.

Download a new dictionary for Kobo e-reader

The first thing to do is to download this new dictionary.

For French, English, German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, I found this project which proposes a dictionary based on Wiktionary, a collaborative site close to Wikipedia: https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict

We will download (in our case), the French dictionary at this address : https://github.com/BoboTiG/ebook-reader-dict/releases/tag/en (the file to download is called dicthtml-en.zip – you can download it here if the link does not work anymore)

I also found dictionaries for translations in this folder: https://download.wikdict.com/dictionaries/kobo/

Transfer your dictionary to the Kobo e-reader

Now you have to transfer the file to your Kobo e-reader. First of all, you have to connect it to a computer with the USB cable provided with the e-reader.

Then, you have to validate the file transfer on the screen of the Kobo e-reader. In your operating system, you should be able to see the e-reader using a file explorer (keyboard keys "Windows + e" in Windows).

You have to go to the files of your e-reader and find the ".kobo" folder. This folder is special and hidden, so you will need to set the folder view to show this type of file in Windows (or Mac).

All you have to do is copy the new downloaded file into the ".kobo/dict" folder of your Kobo e-reader to install the new dictionary.

Now that you've done that, you can disconnect your e-reader from your computer ("eject" in Windows or Mac) and restart your Kobo.

Setting up the e-reader to use the new dictionary

To use the new dictionary, you'll first need to make sure it's installed properly by going to your Kobo e-reader settings.

It should be called "English – English".

Then, you can use it directly from an ebook by underlining a word.

As we can see the result is much better with this dictionary!

Don't hesitate to leave a comment under this article if you want to bring more details about adding new dictionaries on your Kobo e-reader.

It was bound to happen: Amazon is also launching a large-format e-reader with a note-taking function with the Kindle Scribe and its large 10.2-inch screen.

For once, Amazon is obliged to react by offering a machine that competes with the Bookeen Notéa and the Kobo Elipsa.

So the Kindle Scribe is a reading and working machine. Thought as a tool that will allow you to be productive as well as to relax, the Kindle Scribe therefore comes with a stylus that will allow you to take notes and scribble on your electronic documents.

Certainly the screen should do wonders, especially for fans of manga and PDF documents.

The promise of having a stylus without batteries or batteries that is as comfortable to use as a competing stylus is appealing.

People who work in an environment where they have to work, proofread and edit a lot of documents will probably be interested in this machine.

But, if it's just about reading, the price of $369.99 for the 16GB version will put off many book lovers.

Indeed, there are e-readers for less than $200 that do very well for reading ebooks without any headache.

The price is too high for me to buy this Kindle Scribe. So I am unlikely to offer a full review, let alone a comparison with other e-readers. If you only need a Kindle e-reader for ebooks, I think the Kindle Paperwhite is a better alternative.

The e-reader is available and you can learn more about it on Amazon's website if you are interested in this type of device.

The year 2022 has been rich in new hardware (Kobo Clara 2E and new Kindle to name a few) and the year 2023 also promises some nice things. The opportunity to see what we can expect as new readers…

A new Kobo Nia?

The first thing that seems obvious is that Kobo must work on an affordable e-reader that would compete with the new Kindle.

Indeed, the Kobo Nia (current e-reader of the range at less than $100) is starting to show its age with its rather slow screen and its not always top definition.

Clearly, if Kobo wants to get back in the race and offer something very good in the entry level, it will have to release a new version of the Kobo Nia.

Let’s hope that 2023 will bring us this new e-reader!

A new Kindle Oasis?

On the Amazon side, we have already had a renewal of the Kindle Paperwhite with the very good version released in 2021 that offers a great value for money with its 6.8-inch screen.

A few months ago, a new Kindle was released for less than $100.

Logically, it’s the turn of the Kindle Oasis to get a makeover – if Amazon still wants to market it. Indeed, with its price close to $300 and the competition of cheaper and excellent models like the Kobo Libra 2, nothing indicates that Amazon will continue the Oasis adventure.

But, if a new version is to be released, the year 2023 seems to be the right time for Amazon.

New color readers are a key trend

With the arrival of the new Gallery 3 color screen technology, we can expect to see new color readers.

As previously mentioned, the Pocketbook Viva has already been announced and we’ll see what this reader offers in terms of color. The first echoes indicate much better colors than on the Pocketbook Color (for example), but a screen that takes longer to refresh…