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Tag Archives: digital books

May 04, 2015

Cell phone book clubs: What they’re like and what they can do for K-12 kids, their parents and others

How to set up a cell phone book club? LibraryCity covered...
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February 13, 2015

Book review: ‘Bexar BiblioTech: The Evolution of the Country’s First All-digital Public Library’

All right—so all-digital libraries are not for every city or every...
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July 07, 2014

Cell phone book clubs: A new way for libraries to promote literacy, technology, family and community

A friend of mine in his 40s is about to start...
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June 21, 2014

Hip video explains all-digital BiblioTech library in Bexar County, Texas. Even jailed mothers can read e-books to their kids

–Read an e-book at home or in the library, or a...
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Recent Posts
  • Corilee Christou is LibraryCity’s new library and publisher relations director emeritus November 9, 2016
  • Props! Novelist Philip Roth and the Newark Public Library bring his books ‘home’ October 30, 2016
  • Bill Gates: A billionaire book critic who apparently shuns e-books January 5, 2016
  • E-books, e-reading help child literacy: Major study from UK National Literacy Trust December 9, 2015
  • Mark Zuckerberg’s $45B pledge: Why libraries deserve their share—and what they could do with it December 3, 2015
  • Seattle’s iPad-loving librarian vs. books October 28, 2015
  • Should libraries get into the e-reader hardware business in time? October 25, 2015
  • Q. for the next Librarian of Congress: What to do about the Internet Archive? Google Books’ scanning project? Appoint Archive’s Brewster Kahle as librarian? September 13, 2015
  • Live in a certain Iranian city? Minor criminal? Buy and read five book to stay out of jail September 12, 2015
  • Yes, Authors Guild, writers are screwed—here’s what to do about it September 11, 2015
  • Why can’t the media understand the digital divide—especially the Associated Press? September 2, 2015
  • In Warren Buffett’s own backyard: Underfunded Omaha libraries. National digital library endowment, anyone? July 2, 2015
  • ‘Must’ for next librarian of Congress: A love of reading—including the e-book variety June 19, 2015
  • ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ e-books and the Five Laws of Library Science: RIP, John Forbes Nash, Jr. May 24, 2015
  • National digital library endowment plan featured in Education Week May 12, 2015
  • Cell phone book clubs: What they’re like and what they can do for K-12 kids, their parents and others May 4, 2015
  • How the DPLA could turn itself into a real ‘public’ library system—and encourage billionaires to pay for it and an academic system April 30, 2015
  • $1.25-million pledge from novelist James Patterson for school libraries: Here’s what else he can do March 13, 2015
  • The wealth gap: A tale of two school libraries March 10, 2015
  • Beyond library walls: Free e-books for Beijing subway passengers March 6, 2015
  • PTA President Otha Thornton wimps out on Kindle read-aloud issue, in reply to my Baltimore Sun op-ed March 3, 2015
  • 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
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  • Good news for Stanza fans: It apparently works under Apple’s new iOS6 | The Digital Reader { […] one of the best e-reading apps around, was brokenwhen Apple upgraded to iOS […] }
  • Amazon, please unmute the Kindle Paperwhite: No need for the workaround shown in this video, when TTS chips cost next to nothing! | The Digital Reader { […] nothing else, why must even experimenters feel compelled to try the FingerReader on the popular Amazon Paperwhite or other ereaders without text to […] }
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