September 11, 2009 – 9:38 am
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11th September 2009, The monthly “Library 2.0 Gang” podcast guest is Orion Pozo from North Carolina State University. They’ve rolled out a reader loan service with a couple of Sony Readers and a few dozen Kindles of various versions for students. Users select books to be loaded on the Kindle via an online request [...]
August 20, 2009 – 5:00 pm
The moment I’ve been waiting for –ok, procrastinating/putting off — buying a netbook or Kindle or … and I’m not even all that ready to go digital, but apples have always been soooo seductive.
At last a truly useful “netbook” device for the rest of us (vision and fine motor control impared Boomers?) and of [...]
An editorial from Christian Science Monitor
Kindle e-reader: A Trojan horse for free thought By Emily Walshe
“Web 2.0 and its culture of collaboration supposedly unleashed a sharing society. But we can share only what we own. And as more and more content gets digitized, commercialized, and monopolized, our cultural integrity is threatened. The free and [...]
February 24, 2009 – 5:10 pm
David Pogue reviews the updated Kindle: “So, for the thousandth time: is this the end of the printed book?”
And Chris Loring again asks, should the Libraries buy one to experiment with?
I say yes, for this reason alone: “It’s all a thousand times more convenient and more exciting than loading books from a PC [...]
February 10, 2009 – 6:06 pm
Amazon gave details of the Kindle 2 earlier this week. Click the image and here me talk a little about it and see the beginning of an Amazon video, which can be seen in its entirely here.
Details: Slim: Just over 1/3 of an inch, about a pencil width. Lightweight: 10.2 ounces, lighter than a [...]
December 23, 2008 – 5:00 pm
More Readers Picking Up Electronic Books From the New York Times:
Oprah says…
“For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of [...]
September 24, 2008 – 11:10 am
Did you know that the Forbes Library has 2 Kindles you can check out, preloaded with a variety of titles? My wife discovered this a while ago, put her name on the list, and waited a couple of months before getting it. We’ve both tried it, and it does fit nicely in the hands, the [...]
