When it comes right down to it, I am a fanatic about saving the stuff I read on the iPad quickly, painlessly, and in a form I can refer to and use later. After seeking for years for a grand solution to every saving and clipping action issue I encountered, I am now a “git…
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How to Save Your Clippings Outside the Kindle (or Nook or Kobo) Reading App
by Will DeLamater
Interested in saving your clippings and highlights to the web from a single e-book reading device? All of the larger e-book systems like Kindle, Nook, and Kobo have apps that can be installed on a device like the iPad, and from there you can access all the features available to that particular reading system. (By…
Reading Retrofit: A Tool Called Spritz
by Will DeLamater
From the beginning, EduKindle has really been about the meetup between digital technology and reading. Not so much the impact of technology on the publication of text, although that has a long, long history that has involved advances in technology at every step (see Mr. Gutenberg and his press, or Mr. Hammurabi and his stele).…
“Got iPad” beats “Got Kindle” on Christmas
by Will DeLamater
According to Topsy Analytics, there was a clear winner on Christmas morning between iPad and Kindle, at least among Twitter users. Using the Topsy analytics engine, Philip Elmer-Dewitt of CNN Money ran a search on the phrases “got iPad, got Kindle, got Note” in Tweets that people shared on Christmas day. The results are startling…
Are You Getting an E-book Refund?
by Will DeLamater
If this is the first you have heard about an e-book refund, the next thing you will notice is a credit in your Amazon or B&N account for books purchased between April 1, 2010 to May 21, 2012. The option to 1) opt out of the settlement, 2) file a claim, or 3) apply to…
Is Apple to Blame for Higher E-Book Prices?
by Will DeLamater
Is the trial about why e-book prices jumped when Apple entered the market in 2010 much ado about nothing for educators? Maybe not. All of the strategies that educators have embraced since the dawn of the Kindle era half a decade ago, keeping the per-title costs as low as possible has trumped almost every other…
Print books aren’t going anywhere!
by Will DeLamater
Is the iPad Mini Relevant to Educators? Survey Results Here
by Will DeLamater
Based on our admittedly informal and small sample survey, the answer is YES. 83% of our respondents indicated that they would consider a Mini instead of a full sized iPad for their schools. On the flip side, over 80% indicated that the Mini does not offer them anything new that they don’t already have access…
Report Details Kindle Fire “Dislikes”
by Will DeLamater
ChangeWave recently reported the results of a survey of Kindle Fire owners that tallied up the things they like and dislike about the device. While we don’t like to accentuate the negative here at EduKindle, we just found that the dislikes were much more revealing than the likes. What do you think the top “like” was? You guessed it: the price.
Should Amazon Offer Education Discount like Apple?
by Will DeLamater
Why not? It is an accepted practice that hardware and software vendors offer reduced pricing for educators. I mean, even Microsoft does it, and these guys are not known for leaving money on the table. So why not Amazon and why not the Kindle? The practice is not all generosity of spirit for Steve Jobs,…