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January 08, 2014

Should public libraries give away e-book-friendly tablets to poor people? $38 tablet hints of possibilities

Update, Jan. 22, 2014: LibraryCity has reviewed the UbiSlate and given...
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November 06, 2013

UsBook: Toward a family-friendly Facebook alternative to preserve your memories and help future historians—while respecting privacy

The Digital Public Library of American is still on track to...
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May 11, 2013

Voice Dream e-reading app: Stellar for text to speech—and promising as a general reader

The latest: An updated section of this review focuses on education-related issues...
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December 05, 2012

Tell Dec. 6 DPLA hackfest what a good blog editor/creation tool should be like—to help libraries and patrons easily create their own stuff

If only WordPress, Drupal and the like were as easy to...
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  • The K-12 and Economic Cases for a National Digital Library Endowment
  • FAQ for the Above Proposal
  • The Case for Two Well-Stocked National Digital Library Systems
  • Why Libraries Should Buy Out OverDrive---and Why It Should Sell
  • Obama Speech and PTA-Amazon Alliance Validate LibraryCity's K-12 Priorities
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  • National PTA asking Amazon about E Ink Kindles’ missing ‘read-aloud’; related Baltimore Sun op-ed now online February 26, 2015
  • Book review: ‘Bexar BiblioTech: The Evolution of the Country’s First All-digital Public Library’ February 13, 2015
  • Seven ways to grow the e-book business while helping libraries and readers: Ideas based on my two decades of writing about it February 8, 2015
  • Cheap blind-friendly E Ink Kindles with read-aloud and audio nav capabilities: A how-to for Amazon February 4, 2015
  • No Paperwhite read-aloud for you! FCC again lets Amazon and friends diss people with disabilities January 28, 2015
  • The K-12 and economic cases for a national digital library endowment January 11, 2015
  • Want read-aloud in Kindles and other readers? Use the FCC’s easy online form by Jan. 9 January 3, 2015
  • Is your city miserly toward library books? Go for a surtax or a special book fund December 23, 2014
  • Overpaid $266.5K city manager vs. library books December 10, 2014
  • U.K. vocabulary study shows long-term benefits of reading for pleasure: Lower nursing home bills, not just better K-12 scores? November 14, 2014
  • Amazon’s $99 tablet shines for library and public domain books—and here are a few related tips October 22, 2014
  • Adobe’s laxness with e-book data shows the need for a library-controlled ecosystem for library e-books October 14, 2014
  • The top six library issues—from the Amazon threat to the need for a national digital library endowment October 6, 2014
  • The dream team for the cell phone book club concept: Tulare County librarians enter Knight News Challenge September 30, 2014
  • Why library e-book posters should go on the walls of check cashing stores September 15, 2014
  • How cell phone book clubs could help get young people reading and change their lives September 8, 2014
  • How to read e-books on a $20 cell phone: Tips for the cash-strapped and plain adventurous September 1, 2014
  • How to start a cell phone book club—for your library, school, neighborhood, workplace or other purposes August 18, 2014
  • On tablets, summer reading and parental role models for young readers: How schools and libraries can TOGETHER connect the dots August 18, 2014
  • ‘Hunger Games’ publisher’s DRM bungle: New opportunity for libraries—selling e-books you can own for real? July 28, 2014
  • ‘Close The Libraries And Buy Everyone An Amazon Kindle Unlimited Subscription’—Forbes contributor July 21, 2014
  • Cell phone book club vision excites school librarian Njabulo Tazibona in Zimbabwe: How he can make it reality July 18, 2014
  • LibraryCity on ‘Kindle Chronicles’ podcast: DRM, DPLA, e-book future and cell phone book clubs among topics July 12, 2014
  • Cell phone book clubs: A new way for libraries to promote literacy, technology, family and community July 7, 2014
  • Literacy coach’s 2nd grader talks up e-reading. Mother shares lessons she’s learned. July 1, 2014
  • Hip video explains all-digital BiblioTech library in Bexar County, Texas. Even jailed mothers can read e-books to their kids June 21, 2014
  • Library groupthink vs. kids: Library Journal blogger misses nuances of digital library endowment plan June 17, 2014
  • Cell phone book clubs as literacy-boosters and more: A video and a preview of a forthcoming post June 16, 2014
  • A reply to a national digital library endowment skeptic June 7, 2014
  • LibraryCity’s national digital library endowment proposal makes the Chronicle of Philanthropy June 4, 2014
Latest Comments
  • David Rothman { Thanks for caring about this important issue, Robert. iBooks' TTS isn't as slick as it could be, nor is the TTS as used on the... } – Jan 03, 9:20 PM
  • Robert Nagle { The fact that the low powered earlier  Kindle 3 model  could implement a reasonably functional version of text-to-speech suggests that the technological challenges of doing... } – Jan 03, 9:09 PM
  • David Rothman { Hi, Troy--I very much appreciated your note. No, not much is available in Alexandria in terms of general bookstores, perhaps partly because rents around here... } – Oct 21, 2:15 PM
  • Troy Johnson { I wish I read this aticle before compiling my list of best cities for readers of African American literature. Part of my motivation for publishing... } – Oct 21, 1:21 PM
  • David Rothman { Thanks for your comments, Jen. Actually we agree in many if not most ways. I certainly want librarians to be able to go outside to... } – Oct 15, 12:39 PM
  • Jen { Sadly, I don't share your optimism about the ability of libraries to manage the security of their own applications. Libraries have good intentions when it... } – Oct 15, 12:12 PM
  • Diane Romm { We did that once before. It was called a subscription library, and it's what existed before the rise of free public libraries. What did it... } – Jul 22, 9:51 AM
  • David Rothman { Thanks for your opinions, L.O. A lot of sensible people share our feelings about the greater value that a different approach could add. Here are a... } – Jul 05, 12:25 PM
  • Library Observer { I admittedly have no knowledge of the internal dollars and cents workings of Overdrive -- but it does touch on topics that I have always... } – Jul 05, 11:45 AM
  • David Rothman { Hi, Mike. I really appreciate your suggestions, but Testbag, almost surely one of the offenders, is not even on the app menu within Settings. And... } – May 16, 8:14 PM
  • Mike { Just go in settings, application and disable (if you cannot uninstall) the apps (like ubiinfo) that bugs you with ads. Avast antivirus for Android will tell you... } – May 16, 1:54 PM
  • David Rothman { Well, Sid, I doubt I can win you over now---but maybe in time. Other than saying that people like to use tablets for games and... } – Jan 27, 4:24 PM
  • Sid { We agree on one thing: it is probably best to accept that we are at loggerheads regarding how we see this issue. I think it... } – Jan 27, 4:07 PM
  • David Rothman { Sid, if need be, we'll just have to agree to disagree philosophically about the mission of libraries. I believe they should primarily serve the mainstream... } – Jan 27, 3:14 PM
  • Sid { "All in all, we’re talking about a great deal for us taxpayers." I do not see how you logically come to this conclusion. As the... } – Jan 27, 2:14 PM
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