First, a blog post got passed around on Twitter. Then the NYT picked up on it, and the following week this video was posted to YouTube: (better version of this from Penguin’s Digital unit) Got your mind properly blown yet? (Yes? Good.) This is just the start of what promises to be a really ground-breakingContinue reading “More Questions Than Answers: Month 3 of the Year of the E-book”
Category Archives: ebooks
Happy 2nd Anniversary from IL2009
I’m excited to celebrate 2 years of blogging here! I wanted a new place to collect library thoughts so began this blog at IL2007 in order to do just that. This has been a great space for me to explore the random library, education, and literature-related ideas that flow through my head. Sometimes I feelContinue reading “Happy 2nd Anniversary from IL2009”
Even more e-readers, and mobile thoughts
At our annual Staff Day extravaganza on Columbus Day, Columbus Metropolitan Library‘s director Patrick Losinski gave a nice keynote about today’s library challenges and opportunities. His library concentrates on three key constituencies: young minds, power users, and virtual users. I think these are three sets of people you’d do well to make your primary serviceContinue reading “Even more e-readers, and mobile thoughts”
The coming explosion!
Since my last rather ranty post about e-readers & such electronic devices, the field has gotten crowded with competitors and announcements. 2010 is totally going to be the year of the e-reader! Time previews some of the new devices Barnes & Noble will have their own reader for customers Amazon answers with a price cutContinue reading “The coming explosion!”
I downloaded a book (and I liked it… sort of)
I felt as though, after my last post, I should play more with electronic books so that I can speak from a position of experience. So, I fired up my Kindle app on my iPhone – downloaded only because it was free – and flipped through my purchases, such as they were. I had onlyContinue reading “I downloaded a book (and I liked it… sort of)”