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Gabi Witthaus's List: E-books, e-book readers
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Sep 01, 10
How to convert docs into formats readable by e-readers using Calibre
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Aug 05, 10
What's interesting about #oneweek isn't the book publisher Wordpress plugin they built, it's the way they captured the web's imagination and drew people into the process. As the Atlantic reports, "Last week, twelve scholars came together at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to participate in the inaugural One Week, One Tool program. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, their mandate was to build something useful: they called it a barn raising, and the structure they built is Anthologize.org. Anthologize is a Wordpress plugin that allows scholars, conference organizers, and bloggers to create eBooks out of websites." You can export in several formats, including PDF, ePUB, and TEI.
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Mar 09, 10
The enTourage eDGe™ is the world’s first dualbook, combining the functions of an e-reader, netbook, notepad, and audio/video recorder and player in one. It’s a comprehensive device that lets you read e-books, surf the Internet, take digital notes, send emails and instant messages, watch movies and listen to music anywhere, at any time. This is nothing you've ever seen before!
Get books wirelessly, move files onto your enTourage eDGe™ using an SD card or a USB flash drive. Use the mini-USB port to move files back and forth from a Windows, Mac, or Linux-based PC. And with a netbook built in, you can forget the limitations of other e-readers, the enTourage eDGe™ does it all! -
Oct 13, 09
Amazon Kindle 2: Centuries of evolved beauty rinsed away
This week Amazon announced the UK launch of its latest generation of e-reader. But don't all rush at once, warns one American writer – despite the hype, the Kindle 2 is still no match for the book
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Sep 11, 09
The Chronicle picks up a McGraw-Hill press release from Tuesday and reports on some new services offered by the publisher, including an online quiz and quiz-marking service. The textbooks, of course, don't grade you - an online application does that. The strategy is clear: "The company is urging professors to require the electronic textbooks for their courses, rather than leave it up to students whether they buy a printed book or an e-textbook." But one wonders how the service would fare against an unbundled competitor: a stand-alone quiz generation and marking service that feeds into institutional LMSs or (perhaps better) SISs. The Chronicle, meanwhile, is quick to leap to the doomsday scenario: "Is it possible that publishers could start selling textbooks that replace the need for going to class altogether?" Or maybe grading could be crowdsourced. Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Assessment, Books] [Previous][Next]
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Aug 09, 09
Sony to Cut E-Book Prices and Offer New Readers
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