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Kindle’s Impact on Student Reading

The Three Keys to Kindle Book Borrowing through Your Public Library

September 30, 2011
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Now that Amazon and Overdrive have completed their deal to make Kindle titles available through Overdrive’s client libraries, the web has been astir with commentary on the roll-out, which was announced last week. It was a much awaited moment for Kindle owners, who have decried their inability to borrow books from the public library,...
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Book Spam: Seven Steps to Identification for Teachers and Students

August 22, 2011
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Book Spam: Seven Steps to Identification for Teachers and Students

There was a news story this summer that has been a long time in the making: SPAM hits the world of e-books. Anyone who has been following the Amazon Digital Text Platform since its beginnings has seen this coming a long way off. A search for a copy of Pride and Prejudice as recently...
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Beg, Borrow, But Please Don’t Steal: How to Share E-Books at School

February 9, 2011
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Getting the books you buy onto as many readers as possible is a matter of great interest to educators. Right now, there are basically three ways to leverage e-books to increase distribution of titles in schools: 1.  Sharing (books among devices on one account) 2.  Lending and Borrowing (books among all users) 3.  Library...
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Notepad for Kindle Keeps Your Ideas Handy

September 25, 2010
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Notepad for Kindle Keeps Your Ideas Handy

When I got my first Kindle 1 in 2008, I thought that it would be nice if I had a way to capture ideas while reading, without having to leave a “note” inside the book I was reading, where it might be difficult to find later on. So I created a little “utility” document...
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The Graphing Calculator and the Kindle

July 29, 2010
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The Graphing Calculator and the Kindle

Few pieces of educational equipment have achieved the kind of rapid and widespread adoption in schools from middle school to college as the graphing calculator. Introduced by Casio in 1985, the device has been showing up on school supply lists for quite some time, and as a parent I have personally purchased several for...
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Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2

July 5, 2010
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Kindle Phone Home: Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids, Part 2

Once Kathy’s helper-husband Steve had all the Kindles out of their boxes, numbered with stickies, and charging peacefully, the time had come for Kathy to swing into action. It was time to reconnect each Kindle with the Amazon software that would allow Kathy to manage content for each of the Kindles online. Unlike you...
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Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids

July 3, 2010
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Getting 80 Kindles Ready for Kids

I had the pleasure of spending a day with Kathy Parker last week to learn how she sets up all the Kindles the district purchased for Seneca Grade School’s entire eighth class for the coming school year. It is quite a process! I have noted in many previous posts that the Amazon Kindle is...
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More Research Says Bigger Fonts Help Kids Read

June 15, 2010
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More Research Says Bigger Fonts Help Kids Read

Once I started digging in to why everyone seems to crank up the font size on the Kindle, more and more evidence has been sent my way. I want to thank Kerrie Smith, the Australian teacher and LEO at Education.au, for pointing out another significant research compilation on the importance of variable text size....
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It’s Not the Kindle, Stupid! It’s the Text…

May 21, 2010
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It’s Not the Kindle, Stupid! It’s the Text…

As a blogger on a topic tied to a specific device, the Kindle, it has been easy to overlook the real hero of the ebook revolution, and that is the digital text itself. The virtues of ebooks for schools reside not in the features and benefits of a specific reading device, despite what the...
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Should You De-Synchronize Your Kindle?

April 23, 2010
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Should You De-Synchronize Your Kindle?

Should you de-synchronize your Kindle? As my lawyer might say, it depends. Let me explain. Amazon makes it possible for you to read a book that you have purchased on whatever reading device that you happen to have with you at any time, as long as two requirements are fulfilled: Requirement 1: Amazon software...
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