Rate of change in the e-reading world
I'm building up to some e-book presentations in the next few weeks and beginning to assemble my thoughts. I wrote an article on e-readers for teacher librarians and cataloguers which was published at...
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A classroom with e-books
There are logistical problems (page numbering, battery life, power, using text to voice) but they are not insurmountable. Bigger problems are going to come from getting copies downloaded onto the...
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e-book management strategies for schools
One of the problems in managing e-book use in schools is that we are dealing with a number of scenarios as the top of this diagram indicates, and the solutions required, or possible, will vary. The...
View ArticleWhere do you get it? Calibre launches DRM free
calibre introduces Open Books, a site for easy browsing of DRM-free e-books (e-books without DRM) that are not in the public domain. Open Books is a compilation non DRM e-books from various sources...
View Articlee-textbooks in schools: what do you need to think about?
Here in Australia school administrators and teachers are already beginning to think about next year. In terms of converting over to e-textbooks for 2011 they've already missed the boat, but are...
View ArticleiPad trials in Australia
2011 has seen the proliferation of iPad trials in Australian schools and Universities. In most of these cased the iPad has been adopted as much for the Apps available as for its e-reading tools. Here...
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40 years of e-books
You might like to check the rest of the infographic above on TeleRead. I hadn't realised until looking at that, that Project Gutenberg was that old, or that the digitized Declaration of Independence...
View ArticleWill books ever die?
A tongue-in-cheek article I discovered today Product Review: Will 'Paper' Replace E_readers starts We were given some review samples of a new technology called ‘paper’ earlier this week. Paper is a...
View ArticleOn the lookout for e-book trials
That Australian educators and educational administrators are very interested in how e-books and e-readers might be incorporated into the implementation of the curriculum is being demonstrated by the...
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Most of us don't re-sell our books
One of the problems schools have struck in implementing e-textbooks relates to the re-sale model. While in the "real", entertainment world, most of us don't want to re-sell the books that we buy, we...
View ArticleAmazon launching Kindle Library Lending
You've probably already caught up with the announcements by Overdrive and Amazon that they are collaborating on a Kindle ebook lending service. The details are not very clear at the moment but it...
View ArticleProductive in the classroom with e-books
One of the topics I'd like to explore in the coming months is classroom productivity using e-books. As I've commented before, if all you are doing in your classroom with your e-reader or e-reading App...
View ArticleThe chicken or the egg? - talking of e-books
That caught your attention didn't it? as you scratch your head to fathom what I am going to write about it in this post? I don't believe that many schools that are considering implementing e-books and...
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