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		<title>Kobo eReaders Now $20-$30 More Expensive After Price Hike</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/19/kobo-ereaders-now-20-30-more-expensive-after-price-hike/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Kobo]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kobo has raised the prices of their ereaders again for the second time since they were released in 2024. At first I thought it was just BlueProton, Kobo&#8217;s US distributor, charging above retail yet again, but now even Kobo US has suddenly raised the prices on their Amazon store. Midway through writing this article, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Next Gen Kindles Likely to Have User Replaceable Batteries</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/18/next-gen-kindles-likely-to-have-user-replaceable-batteries/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t know when Amazon is going to release their next crop of new Kindles, but when they do there&#8217;s a good chance they&#8217;ll have user-replaceable batteries. There&#8217;s a new law that goes into effect in the European Union in February 2027 that requires all smartphones and tablets sold there to have batteries that are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Does Kobo Still Refuse to Release a 7″ Libra BW?</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/16/why-does-kobo-still-refuse-to-release-a-7-libra-bw/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/16/why-does-kobo-still-refuse-to-release-a-7-libra-bw/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 13:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Kobo]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Pocketbook releasing the new Era Lite with a 7&#8243; black-and-white E Ink Carta 1300 screen, I can&#8217;t help but notice it&#8217;s exactly what Kobo customers have been asking Kobo to release for the past 2 years. It highlights the fact that Kobo still isn&#8217;t listening to what their customers want by refusing to release [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kindle Unlimited 3 Months for Free Deal is Back (YMMV)</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/15/kindle-unlimited-3-months-for-free-deal-is-back-ymmv/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/15/kindle-unlimited-3-months-for-free-deal-is-back-ymmv/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales and Discounts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindle unlimited]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I noticed that Amazon is offering 3 months of Kindle Unlimited for free once again, at least for some accounts, so you might want to check the main Kindle Unlimited landing page at Amazon to see if your account is eligible for the offer as well. The page says it&#8217;s a &#8220;Prime Day Special Offer&#8221;, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Reminder: Download Your eBooks to Older Kindles Before May 20</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/14/reminder-download-your-ebooks-to-older-kindles-before-may-20/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/14/reminder-download-your-ebooks-to-older-kindles-before-may-20/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In case you missed the news, or if you&#8217;ve just been putting off the inevitable, Amazon is cutting off all Kindles released before 2013 from their servers as of May 20th, 2026. That means you will no longer be able to download your Kindle ebooks to affected Kindles after that date, but you&#8217;ll still be [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Release Date Revealed for Kindle Scribe Without Frontlight</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/13/release-date-revealed-for-kindle-scribe-without-frontlight/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/13/release-date-revealed-for-kindle-scribe-without-frontlight/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 13:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindle scribe]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over 7 months since Amazon announced their new lineup of Kindle Scribes, and while the Colorsoft version and the BW frontlit model were released back in December, the Kindle Scribe without a frontlight has been mysteriously unavailable since then, but now Amazon has finally revealed a release date. There&#8217;s a banner at the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New PocketBook Era Lite Getting Released with Built-in Libby App</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/12/new-pocketbook-era-lite-getting-released-with-built-in-libby-app/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[PocketBook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eBook Readers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pocketbook era]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pocketbook is adding a new 7&#8243; ereader to their product line called the Pocketbook Era Lite. It&#8217;s getting released later this month (May 2026), and it comes with Pocketbook&#8217;s new Libby App pre-installed for borrowing ebooks from public libraries. They claim the Era Lite has a premium design with an &#8220;affordable price&#8221;, although they haven&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Unregistered Kindles Don’t Get Software Updates?</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/11/unregistered-kindles-dont-get-software-updates/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think I may have stumbled on a way to avoid getting software updates on Kindles: just don&#8217;t register them. Back in February I had to factory reset my 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite after I intentionally activated a bug that made it go haywire, and then I decided to keep it unregistered for a while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Onyx Has Released a New Remote Page Turner Called Tappy</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/08/onyx-has-released-a-new-remote-page-turner-called-tappy/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/08/onyx-has-released-a-new-remote-page-turner-called-tappy/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[onyx boox]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It looks like Onyx saw how popular Kobo&#8217;s new remote page turner was and they decided to release one of their own, and Onyx went in an entirely different direction with it. I didn&#8217;t even suspect it was a page turner when I first saw it; I&#8217;ve never seen one quite like this before. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Kindle Software Update 5.19.4 Now Rolling Out to Some Kindles</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/07/kindle-software-update-5-19-4-now-rolling-out-to-some-kindles/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/07/kindle-software-update-5-19-4-now-rolling-out-to-some-kindles/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 13:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[firmware update]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amazon has released another software update for Kindles, but so far it&#8217;s only available for a few models. As of this writing, the 5.19.4 software update is available to download for the Kindle Colorsoft (but not the Scribe version), the 12th gen Kindle Paperwhite, and the 2022 Kindle Scribe. It&#8217;s weird to see the 2024 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>How to Tell if Amazon is Dropping Support for Your Kindle</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/06/how-to-tell-if-amazon-is-dropping-support-for-your-kindle/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/06/how-to-tell-if-amazon-is-dropping-support-for-your-kindle/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amazon is going to be ending support for the first five generations of Kindle ereaders on May 20th, 2026. If you&#8217;re unsure if your Kindle is getting cut off from Amazon&#8217;s services, there a few tells that can determine that pretty quickly. First off, if your Kindle doesn&#8217;t have a touchscreen, it&#8217;s getting axed. Second, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>More Kindle Deals Added to Amazon’s Mother’s Day Sales</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/05/more-kindle-deals-added-to-amazons-mothers-day-sales/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/05/more-kindle-deals-added-to-amazons-mothers-day-sales/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sales and Discounts]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amazon has added some new Kindle deals to their Mother&#8217;s Day sales that they first started last week. Most of the sales on Kindle devices are the same as they were when I first posted them, with the addition of new &#8220;Reading Together&#8221; bundles for the Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Colorsoft, and they added some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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			<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		
		
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		<title>Kindle Colorsoft Now Supports System Wide Dark Mode</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/04/kindle-colorsoft-now-supports-system-wide-dark-mode/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/04/kindle-colorsoft-now-supports-system-wide-dark-mode/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 13:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindle colorsoft]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been seeing a bunch of posts online about the Kindle Colorsoft now supporting true Dark Mode across the entire interface like black and white Kindles have for years now. This is one of those new features that has to be activated by Amazon before it will show up, and not all Colorsofts have gotten [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>PocketBook eReaders On Sale, Including New InkPad One eNote</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/01/pocketbook-ereaders-on-sale-including-new-inkpad-one-enote/</link>
					<comments>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/05/01/pocketbook-ereaders-on-sale-including-new-inkpad-one-enote/#comments</comments>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sales and Discounts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PocketBook]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking to buy a new ereader or eNote, several PocketBook devices are currently on sale from their official Amazon store. Update 5/5: Now they have coupon offers in addition to the sale prices on most models, so the prices are even lower than what&#8217;s listed below (in some cases $25 lower). I was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>XTEINK Under Fire After Decision to Block Custom Software Now</title>
		<link>https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2026/04/30/xteink-under-fire-after-decision-to-block-custom-software-now/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan Groezinger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[eBook Readers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Xteink]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just when things were looking good, someone thought it would be a smart idea to start blocking Xteink ereaders from installing custom software, according to reports on reddit, and the reasons they give for doing so are pretty questionable. Here&#8217;s a quote: Previously, we noticed that some users who tried using third-party firmware encountered problems [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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