There are compelling reasons to own a print book you want to read, AND to have an e-book version to go along with it. It is devilishly hard to save all your notes and clipping when you have a print copy, and you can’t admire a book on your bookshelf or share it with a…
Now that it has been purchased by Pinterest, an Instapaper account with all the premium services is now free! (You’re welcome…;-) Click on the logo for more information. In case you never heard of Instapaper, editors at Wikipedia tell us that “Instapaper is a bookmarking service owned by Pinterest. It allows web content to be…
Amazon recently announced an additional benefit of your Amazon Prime membership. It’s called Prime Reading, and it empowers Prime members to borrow up to 10 titles at a time from a selection of books, magazines, and comics. For example, if you have a Prime membership (and if you don’t, why don’t you?) you can now read the…
Update January 1, 2017: My Pick for the Month: The Mutual Admiration Society by Lesley Kagen So why did I pick this one? Just reading the snippet from the first page told me that this narrator was going to be a lot of fun to spend some time with. As a former teacher, the child’s…
When I asked educators about the usefulness of Clean Reader, the responses were definitive. Teachers don’t like it. It smacks of censorship. It dilutes the purpose of art, or worse–it bastardizes it in the name of correctness. One teacher said that the app is “a violation of all of the principles of intellectual freedom that…
Are you one of those individuals who likes to read across different media, i.e. do you want to read the same book in print and on a digital device? If so, the world of booksellers is ready to serve your needs. If you have a Kindle reader or software and an Amazon account, finding out…
Watch the short video that GigaOm dug up about the new subscription service for unlimited books from Amazon: How would such a service affect your reading habits? Please share your thoughts in the comments below! You might also like: Beware Automatic Book Updates on Kindle and What Educators Need to Know About Kindle Synchronization
Headed abroad this summer? If Paris is on your itinerary, download this ebook guide to the museums of this great art city and have it handy on any mobile device, saved in your Kindle reader or your ePub reader (we like Bluefire). In addition to the general article on Paris itself and the article listing…
More and more, reading with Kindle doesn’t require that you actually OWN a Kindle. Of any type. In fact, I spend most of my time these days on my iPad Mini, but I like to use the Kindle app and the Amazon ecosystem to collect articles, buy books, and review my documents. Here is a…
If you don’t read Joanna Cabot at Teleread, you should. She is truly the e-book reader/user’s best friend, testing out everything, taking nothing on authority, and sharing her experiences for our benefit. This article is a great introduction to her thinking and her work. Enjoy! What a diet book taught me about my eBook spending…