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Tech NewsGadgets12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle
Your Kindle e-reader isn’t the kind of gadget you upgrade all that often, and you might have one that’s been serving you well for years. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know everything that Amazon’s e-reader can do. Here are some of the lesser-known features and settings you can play around with on your Kindle, … Continued
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io9Ava DuVernay Summons the Dragons of Wings of Fire to an Animated Series
Her DC Universe movie New Gods may have been canceled, but director Ava DuVernay is keeping busy. Netflix has just announced she’ll executive produce a new animated series based on Tui T. Sutherland’s best-selling, young adult fantasy series Wings of Fire. If you’re not a young adult, you may not have heard of the books … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsYou Can Finally Use Book Covers as Kindle Lockscreens
The Kindle lockscreen has always been whatever. Either you opted for a cheaper e-reader with ads or you got random stock photos of… pens and inkwells. But now Amazon has finally given bookworms what they want: The ability to use book covers as lockscreens. To get the feature, you’ll need to have a relatively recent, … Continued
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io9Amazon’s Wheel of Time Offers a Glimpse of Rosamund Pike’s Moraine, and More
Amazon’s Wheel of Time TV series revealed the first look of Rosamund Pike as Moiraine recently and answered a bevy of questions about the show and the character. They reveal a few interesting details about both. First, if you don’t know or don’t remember, Moiraine is a member of the Aes Sedai, a cabal of … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsBarnes & Noble’s Nook Sidesteps the Grave Once Again With a New Lenovo-Built Tablet
For years, news of Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of e-readers and Android tablet being discontinued have surfaced again and again, but somehow the little-brand-that-could defies its own death with new hardware that brings it back from the brink of extinction. Today that comes in the form of a new 10-inch Nook tablet courtesy of … Continued
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Tech NewsYou’re Drawing Icebergs All Wrong
Megan Thompson-Munson, a geologist and climate scientist, has seen your drawings of icebergs and had enough. It’s time for a scientific reckoning. Thompson-Munson is currently studying for a Ph.D. at the University of Colorado Boulder and recently took time away from studying to make clear up the iceberg confusion. In a Twitter thread, the young … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsWith an Upgraded Color E Ink Screen, This Could Be the Perfect E-Reader for Comic Book Fans
When we reviewed the PocketBook Color last year, we loved the device and the fact that true e-readers could finally display color, but its six-inch screen made it hard to use for reading comic books and magazines which work much better on tablets. The new PocketBook InkPad Color tries to remedy that with a larger … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsBreaking Down Star Wars: The High Republic—Old Jedi, New Tech, and Fascinating Connections
The first wave of Star Wars: The High Republic stories is upon us, painting the broad strokes of what we can expect to see in this era, centuries before the Skywalker saga. After checking in with the new books and comics that hit shelves last week, we’re already getting a picture of some intriguing connections—and … Continued
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io9The Expanse‘s Latest Episode Sets Season 5’s Endgame in Motion
The Expanse’s fifth season is inching closer to its finale, and this week the show narrowed its focus, spending most of its time on one especially heartbreaking storyline. Episode seven’s title, “Oyedeng,” is the Belter word for “good-bye”—and the series has rarely taken us through such a painful, powerful farewell. We don’t get many flashbacks … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsHades and Persephone Get a Divine Meet-Cute in This Peek at Fantasy Erotica Neon Gods
In Neon Gods, erotica author Katee Robert shifts her focus from Disney villains to Greek mythology, a realm that also happens to be overflowing with steamy romance. Today, io9 is revealing the cover and an excerpt that sees heroine Persephone, on the run from Zeus, meeting a dark stranger at the River Styx. First, here’s … Continued
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io9MoviesBen Affleck May Direct the Fantasy Keeper of the Lost Cities for Disney
Ben Affleck is probably never going to direct that Batman movie he’d been prepping but he may get to play with some wonderful toys at a rival studio. Deadline reports Affleck is attached to direct an adaptation of Keeper of the Lost Cities, the first in an ongoing book series by Shannon Messenger. The story follows … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsPeter Pan Is Real (and Wendy Is Terrified) in This Excerpt From Aiden Thomas’ Lost in the Never Woods
Last year, author Aiden Thomas made history with Cemetery Boys, the first fiction book by a trans author and with a trans main character to make the New York Times bestseller list. Their next book, Lost in the Never Woods, puts a dark spin on the classic tale of Peter Pan, and io9 has an … Continued
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io9TelevisionAmerican Gods‘ Season 3 Won’t Stop, Even Though You’ve Heard This One Before
American Gods spent trying to claw its way out of production hell before coming to Starz. Now, it’s one of the shows returning in 2021 after weathering the ongoing covid-19 pandemic that continues to devastate the entertainment industry. It’s almost miraculous to consider, given the on-set upheavals and exits that rocked American Gods over the … Continued
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io9TrailersClarice‘s First Trailer Introduces Powerful Monsters Hiding in Plain Sight
Much as we’ve seen of one Clarice Starling across the many adaptations of Thomas Harris’ literature over the years, almost every story about the hotshot, young FBI agent has focused on her tireless hunt to find and imprison serial killers. Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet’s new Clarice series for CBS wants to change things up … Continued
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io9MoviesThe Rogue Squadron Pilots We Want in Patty Jenkins’ Star Wars Movie
In 2023, Patty Jenkins will deliver (pending future ramifications of the world in which we live) Rogue Squadron, the next major theatrical release in the Star Wars saga: a tale of the bravest squadron of pilots in the galaxy far, far away. The Rogues have a long history within canon and a longer one out … Continued
