A recent tweet: Theres nothing better for a boring class than a Kindle : D Not exactly what we had in mind for the Kindle in education…(but it works for me!)
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Does Research Support Kindle Use to Improve Student Reading Scores?
Much research highlighted in the past few years indicates the importance of time spent reading as the key factor in reading improvement for students. One path the debate has taken concerns the amount of reading that kids do on the web. The New York Times addressed this factor in a recent article. However, as...
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Kindle Font Size and Student Reading
The ability to read a book, a newspaper, whatever, at a congenial font size is part of what makes the Kindle such a pleasure to use. The demographics of older readers with aging eyes like my own make this a strong incentive to get involved with electronic (and configurable) text. But what about students?...
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The Kindle is for “Frictionless” Reading, First
Nice post by Matt Asay at CNet: No, what I really like about the Kindle is the reading experience. It’s wonderful. The only thing missing is a backlight for reading in low-light conditions, but it’s already better than reading a physical book because the screen is comforting to view and the weight/feel of the...
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The Power of the Kindle Book Sample
I love this tweet because it expresses my experience exactly: “Started Pillars of the Earth, as a sample on Kindle. At 11:30p end of sample so without taking head off pillow downloaded rest of book WOW!” From Twitter. What’s magical about a Kindle “sample” is that it gives you quite a bit to read,...
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Author Len Edgerly Reads Live From the Kindle in Boulder
Is it the first author reading by Kindle? Hear “Cold Turkey in Paradise: Twelve Days Off the Internet in Maho Bay” read by author Len Edgerly below and read the essay itself at Wazee: Len, how about a Kindle version so we can read it ourselves?
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Kindle, Schools, and the Love of Reading
Kelly asks on her blog: How about a Kindle’s impact on schools? Put a new Kindle in the hand of a child already pre-downloaded with some rich literature and watch their eyes light up on the first day of school. Will children discover a new love for reading? All I know is that I...
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