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The Kindle Reading Experience

Send to Kindle: The Little Button with the K on It

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March 27, 2013
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See that little button at the top of this post with the “k” on it? If you click it, you will be given the opportunity to send the post in its entirety to your Kindle reading device. It’s called “Send to Kindle,” and it is something Kindle readers have wanted for a long time....
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Five Reasons I Put Pulse on My Kindle Fire

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March 7, 2013
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I mean, there are more than five reasons, and frankly I put that in the headline because the pundits say it makes more people read the post, like the numerical approach scratches some itch we have in the reptilian brain or something. In any case, I should say “at least five,” because this nifty...
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The Growing World of Worldreader, Part 2

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February 25, 2013
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As a follow up to our chat a few weeks back, Worldreader CEO David Risher was kind enough to answer a few more questions for me. First, I wondered how the money from the Bezos grant would be used? Our goal this year is to move from 10,000 kids with access to e-readers to...
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The Growing World of Worldreader

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February 12, 2013
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Had an opportunity to catch up with David Risher, founder and head of Worldreader, the group that is transforming literacy around the world by sending Kindles loaded with books to the remotest reaches of the planet. He sounds like he is having a blast. And who wouldn’t be, when the CEO of a little...
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Print books aren’t going anywhere!

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December 5, 2012
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A helpful infographic on e-books and print books, thanks to TeachingDegree.org. Of course we want to have a print book in hand when reading Goodnight Moon to our little one!
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Why do teens prefers phones to Kindles as e-readers?

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October 25, 2012
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The recent Pew report on Young Americans’ Reading and Library Habits contains a number of great take-aways, including the news that young people frequent libraries at an unexpectedly high rate. But another finding has emerged that may have an impact on the way that schools think about pleasure reading and reading instruction both inside and...
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What Educators Need to Know About Kindle Synchronization

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May 5, 2011
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Should you de-synchronize your Kindles? As my lawyer might say, it depends. If you are a teacher or librarian, and you want students who are reading a copy of a book that is shared among six Kindles, the answer to the question for you may very well be YES. Let me explain. Amazon makes...
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More Research Says Bigger Fonts Help Kids Read

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June 15, 2010
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…

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May 21, 2010
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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Distribution Inefficiency and the Kindle

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March 31, 2010
Distribution Inefficiency and the Kindle

There are some very important abbreviations in the print publishing industry that I have learned in the past few years. These are OS, OSI, and OP. The terms are related, with OS often leading to OSI, and OSI often a harbinger of OP. In booksellers parlance, these abbreviations stand for “out of stock,” “out...
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