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…
Sometimes it takes a book. And then you have to keep them somewhere. These libraries in an article from Wired Magazine make the process of going to the library an aesthetic experience from the moment you arrive. Interesting that so many of them are in Scandinavia. In America, The Chicago Public Library is included. Which…
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I had to move Sunday with books over to Edukindle this week due to server maintenance at eReadups. Looking though dusty stacks of vinyl records yesterday we came upon a set of disks of Wagner’s Das Rheingold. The records themselves looked clean so we picked them up. Back at home, we dug out the old…
The irony is almost painful. Sure, it’s a “who’da thunk” moment, wrapped in the mysteries of the greatest disruptive retail operation of the past half-century. Amazon takes the very thing, a store, that it invested every fiber of its being in making irrelevant, and, wait for it, opens one itself! The impulse to plant a foot in the space-time…
September 2016: About Blue Shade: There has been a lot of research lately concerning the way that backlit screens on tablets like the Amazon Fire affect sleep patterns for those who read on the tablet at bedtime. The bottom line seems to be that certain wavelengths of light in the blue end of the spectrum…
Clipping limit? An oxymoron? Those of us who love to mark up our books sometimes go overboard. I remember packing some of my old college textbooks and seeing how most of the text was highlighted in bright yellow. How does that help? an older and wiser me mused. Enter the age of digital text. No…
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…