For those of you who have a new iPad, or an eReader, one of the first things you will ne looking for is how to find some good books for free. The real irony out there is that many to most of the real classics of world literature and thought are free (see below). You [...]
I have been using Calibre as a Windows based program with which I can translate eBooks, PDF’s, and almost any text format into something I can view on an eBook app. It does a pretty good job (since it is freeware, and mostly the work of one person, it is pretty impressive). Calibre comes with [...]
I see more and more people using the new eReaders these days…I guess it’s the fact that the Kindle 3 and the latest version of the Nook are so cheap (~$130.00) that more people are buying and using them. With this in mind, I still see a lot of opinion pieces on some of the [...]
I have been keeping an eye upon the possibilities inherent in the eReader format, and the general idea of eReaders. This was one of the reasons I decided upon an iPad…with this tool I have access to amazon.com content, Barnes & Noble content, iBooks content, as well as provenance free books from a variety of [...]
I’ve seen a lot written about some of the shortcomings involved in the actual practice of using eReaders as platforms of school textbooks. There may be a case where merely porting a textbook over to (let’s say) the Kindle provides students with: a much lighter load to have to carry, and a textbook which does [...]
As an end user of modern media, I strangely found this article to be reassuring. By this, I am alluding to the fact that the publishing industry is already dealing with changes they are seeing related to eBooks, the slow deaths of magazines and newspapers, and the rise of tablets and eReaders. The one-screen problem [...]
I think that eReaders are great…for sitting down and reading a book, as a tool for students to use or study things start to break down. There are some subtle advantages in using good old fashioned books…we all have lots of experience in using them, it is (ahem) a mature technology with almost complete penetration [...]
Years ago I have quite a few LP records… slowly I started to make the transition to CD’s, and then MP3’s. I spent far too much time in the late 1990’s managing all of my MP3 collection, cleaning up ID3 tags, and maximizing the files for a variety of evolving music plating software. Now I [...]
In the future, books may not be for reading… The advent of eBook readers creates a pretty obvious situation where adding more and different forms of media to what was originally a purely textual format will take place in the very near future. I suspect that there might be a lot of convergence between movie [...]
This is an interesting idea…that digital textbooks (eTextbooks) are seen as already being at some ‘tipping point’… This article provides some information that since the current market share of 1.5% is indicative enough of this trend… I guess that I always all back towards a pessimistic point of view. The only digital textbook perspectives which [...]
