What’s New with Recently Released Kindle Firmware 5.12.5?

Kindle is regularly updated with improvements to the reading experience. Recently, the new released Kindle Firmware version was 5.12.5 which had added a couple of new features.
Here’s the changelog of what's new:
Progressive Download: Once you initiate a book download, you do not need to wait until the complete book is downloaded. We will allow you to open the book as the download is in progress.
Read seamlessly across devices: Over the next few weeks you will see an updated page location dialog that gives you helpful information on your recent location, and makes it easier to navigate between the current and the most recently read page.
As usual, performance improvements, bug fixes, and other general enhancements.
Now you can download the latest Kindle Firmware from Amazon’s Kindle Software Update page manually, or you can automatically install it via WiFi in the coming weeks.
After updating to the latest Kindle Firmware, you can read Kindle Books before they have finished downloading. By the way, if you want to back up Kindle books to your local disk, you can follow this guide to decrypt and convert Kindle books.

Pocketbook will Launch Color eReader in June

PocketBook just announced the final stage of development of its innovative color screen e-reader. The new PocketBook Color will be one of the first e-readers with a color screen featuring the latest E Ink Print Color ePaper Technology. The device features a color screen with 300-ppi resolution from the newest generation E Ink Kaleido™, which can display 4,096 colors. The new 6-inch PocketBook Color takes e-reading to a brand-new level, making it even more captivating, inspiring, and informative. Besides, the PocketBook Color screen is safe for the eyes and retains all the unique properties inherent to E Ink displays.

With this eye-friendly screen, E-books have never been so attractive to younger readers. Instead of the usual black and white pages, colorful pages can always keep a child’s attention.
The release of the new device is scheduled for June 2020. And this color e-reader will be around $229. If you have many Kindle books and prefer to use PorketBook reader, you can follow this guide to read Kindle books on PorketBook Reader.

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How to Recover Permanently Deleted Photos from Your Computer

When you remove photos or images from Recycle Bin, it implies that you have permanently deleted them from your computer. Or due to virus, or incorrect hard drive formatting, you have lost your photos permanently. Unlike temporary deletion, in which photos go to Recycle Bin from where you can easily restore them, permanently deleted photos are difficult to recover. If you accidentally delete photos permanently from your computer, imElfin Data Recovery is the best choice for you to recover them easily and quickly.

imElfin Data Recovery is a professional data recovery application. It is designed to recover lost or permanently deleted videos, audio images, documents, emails, and archives from your computer drive, HDD, SSD, SD card, memory card, digital camera, USB drive and other supported devices. Here’s the step by step guide to recover permanently deleted photos from your computer.
Step 1, install imElfin Data Recovery for Windows to your computer. 
Note: 1. Trial users can recover files up to 300M for free；2. imElfin Data Recovery is only available for Windows now.
Step 2, select types of lost files and start scanning. 
Run imElfin Data Recovery, select types of your lost files. Here you should check Graphics first, then click Next on the lower right corner of the software >> Scan to start scanning.

We suggest you use Deep Scan if you haven’t found your deleted photos after the scanning completes.

Step 3, select the photos you want to recover.
When the scanning completes, locate your accidentally deleted photos.

Step 4, recover deleted photos.
Check the boxes to the right of your deleted photos, then click Recover and choose a location to save the recovered images.

Voila! You will find your lost photos that are stored in the folder you have chosen when the recovery completes.

Kobo Partners with Australia’s No.1 Bookseller

On April, 2020, Kobo announced a new strategic partnership with Australia’s largest online bookseller, Booktopia. This partnership lets Rakuten Kobo become Booktopia’s exclusive digital reading partner. Therefore, Booktopia’s customers can now access Kobo’s catalogue of more than five million titles, including eBooks and audiobooks, through a new joint venture, Booktopia by Rakuten Kobo.

Due to coronavirus outbreak, Australians are encouraged to stay inside and socially distance themselves from others. At the same time, there has been a surge in demand for eBooks and audiobooks. With this strategic partnership, Booktopia by Rakuten Kobo will be offering its best free, discounted, and curated content to help readers find much-needed distraction.
Besides, you can back up all of your ebooks that are purchased from Kobo and Booktopia website by following this guide on how to remove Kobo DRM.

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Sesame Street eBooks are Free on All Major eBook Platforms

Novel coronavirus was first reported from Wuhan, China. Sadly, now coronaviruses are common throughout the world after it has spread to foreign countries as well. The virus is super infectious and deadly. For safety, schools are shut down in the various countries impacted by Coronavirus. Despite of this, all major book sellers are doing their part to provide great reads for kids. Besides this, Sesame Street just made 110 ebooks 100 Percent Free. And now you can get them from all the major eBook marketplaces, like Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble Nook, Google Play, and Kobo, etc.

We know it’s hard to be stuck at home, especially with young kids. But along with the eBooks, it’s sure to be a lifesaver to parents struggling to keep their kids entertained and free up the time to get work done themselves. Only by doing so, we can defeat the virus as soon as possible.

Bonus tip: if you want to decrypt these Kindle/Kobo/Google Play/Nook ebooks, you can read this guide on how to remove DRM from these ebooks.

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Kindle Oasis 3 won’t in Stock until April 25 Because of the Coronavirus

Now coronaviruses are common throughout the world after it was first reported from Wuhan, China. The coronavirus is way more infectious and fatal than we thought considering the numbers of infected people around the world as well as the casualties. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, it has brought great inconvenience to our daily life. If you have no idea what the coronavirus is, here are top 10 books in virus disease that helps you understand coronavirus better. 

We just found out that Amazon’s flagship e-reader -- Kindle Oasis 3 is already out of stock. They will not be in stock until April 25, 2020. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, Kindle manufacturer – Foxconn, which can‘t produce Kindle devices as usual. It’s not surprising to find out that many electronic products will be in serious short supply during this period.

If you have many Kindle ebooks, we suggest you back up these files to your local disk. You can read this guide on how to remove Kindle DRM and back up Kindle books. 

Do Not Update to The Latest Kindle Firmware 5.12.4!

Two weeks ago, Amazon released the latest Kindle Firmware 5.12.4. However, Some users are not able to access HomeScreen and get into their library on their Kindle device after updating to the latest Kindle Firmware 5.12.4. But you can still access your content from the search bar, which is very inconvenient to use.
Luckily, if the HomeScreen and library view are disappeared from your Kindle device, here’s the solution to this issue -- deregister and re-register your device and try to download the books from the library. By the way, we suggest you do not update to the latest Kindle Firmware until this bug is fixed. Below is the details about the fix.
To deregister your Kindle:
1. From the Home screen, tap the Menu icon, and then tap Settings.
2. Tap My Account, and then tap Deregister Device.
3. Tap Deregister again to confirm.
Then, restart your device:
1. Press and hold the Power button for 7 seconds until the Power dialog box appears.
2. Tap Restart.
To register your Kindle:
1. From the Home screen, tap the Menu icon, and then tap Settings.
2. Tap My Account.
3. Follow the onscreen instructions to register your device. If your Kindle has already been registered, select the option to deregister your device before entering your new registration information.

Use the onscreen keyboard to enter your Amazon username and password. If you are registering the device for the first time, you may be able to select "Set up Your Kindle" from the Home screen.

To access your Library:
1. Make sure your device is connected wirelessly.
2. From the Home screen, tap My Library, and then tap All.
3. Tap the item you wish to download to your device, and then tap Downloaded to return to your list of downloaded books.
The item will appear on the Downloaded tab automatically when the download is complete.