Posts Tagged ‘ eBooks ’

The view from Mordor…

March 14, 2011

I ran across an interesting article in Salon.com, where Laura Miller described an easily available PDF file form online…This ‘eBook’ was a sort of novel, which was novel… The whole premise was to create a counter history to the Lord of the Rings…only told from the other side. As a revisionist history of middle earth, [...]

Calibre

By Richard Riehle

January 5, 2011

If you have an iPad, you might have gotten it because you are interested in eBook. The Calibre program (for Windows, OSx, Linux…) can be an incredibly worthwhile tool to use to: keep track of, and maintain our eBook library, to upgrade or cleanup some of your eBooks with tags, better cover art, summaries, ratings, [...]

e-textbooks…

By Richard Riehle

August 24, 2010

In the few years since I graduated from college, it would seem that having a laptop (or the equivalent) has gone from being a handy tool to the prime prerequisite to college life. Not too surprisingly, there is a comparable movement of students toward dealing with electronic versions of textbooks (albeit several years after this [...]

eReaders

By Richard Riehle

July 20, 2010

I saw in the news this morning that Amazon.com is selling more e-books than good, old fashioned paper books. While this could be seen as a leading indicator, the change is happening sooner than I would have expected. While there are a couple of these readers in the eye of the populace, there are actually [...]