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$50 Amazon Fire tablet plays well with OverDrive library app—which can read...
I asked earlier if any libraries might buy $50 Amazon tablets. The six-pack price without tax or shipping is just $250 or about $42 per device. Now the case for library use of the $50 tablet seems...
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The gift of the lower-end device
The new Amazon tablets fascinate me. I paid a little more for my new Android device, but if those $50 tablets were available in Canada, I would have bought one in a heartbeat. That might seem like an...
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If you love e-books partly because your place is small, check out Intel’s NUC...
Don’t you love it when p-book fanatics brag about their capacious bookshelves in their big suburban houses? Many reasons exist to cherish e-books. But space at home or lack of it can be among the major...
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Nook GlowLight Plus driver shows up in Calibre 2.42
Waterproofed or not, the Nook GlowLight Plus didn’t exactly overwhelm me when I tried it out at a local Barnes & Noble store. But if you’ve just bought a GlowLight Plus, I’ve got good news—the...
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Who really owns the copyright to ‘Happy Birthday’? The ongoing mess
Our friends at Techdirt have a great analysis on the ongoing ‘Happy Birthday’ copyright mess. Back in September, Warner Music was ruled not to have the copyright to this song, and many news outlets...
View ArticleMore Black Friday-related deals—for example, a $450 64GB iPad Air 2 and a...
Yes, there is more to life than Black Friday-related deals. But below are a few beyond the $35 Kindle Fire on sale on Thanksgiving Day (update on Amazon here—including information on its new...
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Joanna vs. the gremlins (continued)
Earlier this month I made the Mac to Windows switch. So, how is it going? Have I overcome the gremlins? Did my e-book library survive the transfer? Can I, once again, download Kindle and library books?...
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No, your WPM reading book hype isn’t necessarily the same as time spent...
The odd Web site of the day is How Long to Read. You “search over 12 million books and find your reading time for each one.” With me so far? Yes, I can imagine how a site could simply list books’ word...
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What Black Friday bargains are you snapping up—especially e-book-related?
The $35 Fire tablet is now a reality, at least for those of us here in the States, as part of Black Friday. Anyone actually pulling the trigger? What else are you buying or are about to? Any other...
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Fan uses Wikipedia edit to sneak backstage at concert
We’ve carried plenty of stories about Wikipedia hanky-panky, but this one has to win some kind of a prize. An industrious fan in Australia used a spur-of-the-moment Wikipedia edit to let him sneak...
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