The *New* Democratic Leadership Council recently published a white paper by Thomas Z. Freedman that details the rationale and the economics of deploying Kindle ereaders to schoolchildren across America. In a thoughtful approach to envisioning the cost, the method, and the timeframe for getting a Kindle into every backpack, Freedman says We shouldn’t wait...
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
DLC Publishes Kindle Plan for Schools
The Kindle Discrimination Lawsuit at ASU
When I saw the news about the lawsuit filed at Arizona State University concerning Kindle accessibility issues, I think I had a quick negative reaction to the upshot of the suit, that providing Kindles to sighted students creates a disadvantage for blind students. A journalism major at ASU, a plaintiff in the suit, sums...
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What Will Become of the Kindle DX?
Now that I have been using my Kindle DX for a couple of weeks, I have some observations. First, all of the menu-driven controls that I criticized a little bit in assessing the changes from kindle 1 to Kindle 2 are not as problematic as I thought. Switching the wifi on and off is...
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- Tom Petrie on Kindle Library Lending Endgame: Returning Your Books or Watching Them Expire
- Tom Petrie on Why Is It So Hard to Cite a Passage on the Kindle?
- MZ on Kindle Library Lending Endgame: Returning Your Books or Watching Them Expire
- willd on Using Your Kindle as a Personal Notepad
- Daniel on Page Number Versus Position on Kindle
- none ya bisness on Downloads
- Sami on Buying Your Kindles Using a Purchase Order
- willd on What Middle School Students Say About the Kindle
- Dian Monson on What Middle School Students Say About the Kindle
- willd on Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2
- Page Number Versus Position on Kindle
- Downloads
- Kindlepedia
- About
- Kindlepedia
- Using Your Kindle as a Personal Notepad
- Beg, Borrow, But Please Don’t Steal: How to Share E-Books at School
- Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2
- Why Is It So Hard to Cite a Passage on the Kindle?
- The Nook and the Kindle
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