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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

TeleRead calls for well-stocked national digital libraries in the United States and elsewhere. TeleRead's moderator is David Rothman (dr@teleread.org).


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Wide-screen monitors for e-books: Are you using one?or considering it?

Posted Thursday May 8, 2008, 2:45 am, Over one day old
The trick is to use a two-column, booklike view. Click here for a detailed view, although you may have to scroll. | | Now, in the booklike mode running in “Full screen,” not shown, I can easily see more than 1,000 words at a time with Mobipocket and a font smaller than tried here.

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Amazon?s cloud computing bet

Posted Thursday May 8, 2008, 2:45 am, Over one day old


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The myth of free news

Posted Thursday May 8, 2008, 2:45 am, Over one day old
Today?s crisis in the gathering of news would disappear if the?Googles,? making a fortune in advertising; the?Verizons,? making a fortune in transmission; and the?Apples,? making a fortune in hardware, would pay a share of the cost of the news and information that flows through them.

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Sexy ?crone lit?: ?Age is no barrier for books??E included?

Posted Thursday May 8, 2008, 2:45 am, Over one day old
You know about chick lit. Could “crone lit” be the rage someday? One is constantly on her Blackberry, another touching up her scarlet mouth with her lippy and eyeing up the young men.

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Google ads coming to Project Gutenberg? Good move! Next: Letting PG, not Michael Hart, own the trademark?

Posted Thursday May 8, 2008, 2:45 am, Over one day old


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K-12 librarian: ?Amazon won?t let us buy Kindle books??but read on for some ideas

Posted Friday May 2, 2008, 11:34 am, Over one day old
“We are a public school district with a corporate Amazon account. And now we have a $400 loss at our taxpayers’ expense.” - A school librarian in New York. | | The TeleRead take: Read the comments (appearing below her post), which overwhelmingly defend Amazon.

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Asus Eee PC: A real computer for the frugal e-book fan on the go

Posted Friday May 2, 2008, 11:34 am, Over one day old
A previous TeleBlog article had just the answer I needed—again, it was not the most intuitive way the job could have gotten done, and I would not have thought of it on my own, but once I had my solution, I was reading a Project Gutenberg download in no time.

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Adobe?s Flash move: The good and the bad for e-books

Posted Friday May 2, 2008, 11:34 am, Over one day old
ZDNet blogger Ed Burnett notes that “source code for the Flash player is still closed source and proprietary.” Adobe acted not out of charity but to be protective of its sales of authoring tools for e-books and other media.

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Amazon vs. New York sales tax rules: A little niceness toward POD folks and ePub would help, Jeff

Posted Friday May 2, 2008, 11:34 am, Over one day old


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Free Pop Culture Ebooks from SmartPop

Posted Friday May 2, 2008, 11:34 am, Over one day old
You know, Buffy, Lost, Simpsons, Star Trek, etc. Volume 2 and 3 are slightly shorter. | | For those of you who think essays about pop culture are boring, remember that they were a source of endless fascination for certain writers.

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