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There is a whale on the screen. Not a Swedish whale, as it turns out. That sleeping whale — tangled in what looks like seaweed drawn by someone who was enjoying themselves — is a Bookeen whale. Bookeen is French. The device it is swimming inside says letto on the chin, and letto is AdLibris,…

Open the settings menu on an Alcor Myth LED and look for the bookstore. There isn’t one. Look for an account screen, a sign-in prompt, a sync button, a cloud icon. There isn’t one of those either. What you get instead is a five-way key, a rotation button, a menu button, a back button, and…

/ Disclosure: we earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. It costs you nothing and it keeps the lights on. Somewhere in a drawer in Poland — or possibly on a shelf in a design museum, because this actually happened — sits a Red Dot Award certificate for an e-reader that…