You might have heard the story. In the midst of the big “kerfluffle” over Amazon’s pulling back of the illegally distributed copies of 1984, student Justin Gawronski awoke one day to discover that all the notes he had taken on the book as he read it on his Kindle were rendered useless. Not gone,...
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Is Kindle the perfect learning appliance?
The devices that we use to access content are getting smaller and smaller. One could make the case that the iPod Touch and the iPhone are in fact small pocket computers, and one wouldn’t be far from the truth. (The coming update to the iPhone operating system promises to allow, among other things, the...
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The Tudors Finale and Anne of Cleves on Kindle
Poor Anne of Cleves. Or should I say, lucky Anne of Cleves? This historical character, played by Joss Stone on Showtime’s The Tudors, is one of the most enigmatic of Henry’s wives. She acts as a kind of historical pivot on which Protestantism, international politics, the changing character of Henry VIII, and the ineffabilities...
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Student Kindle Comment from the Twitterverse
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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- Mystery book sculptures still sprouting across ScotlandHere’s fresh proof of the veneration and wonder that books and libraries can inspire—especially in a literature-biased country like Scotland, whose national day commemorates a poet. The mysterious artist who has been crafting beautiful paper sculptures from printed pages, most recently with a nest and egg theme, and leaving them anonymously at libraries, cul […]
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