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teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Sep 7, 2008
I loved it the other day when Times Emit described the TeleBlog as "excellent" if "militant." Actually the two words go well together. We’d be remiss in our duties to readers, writers and publishers if we didn’t take …
Also tagged: ebook, ebooks, drm, e books, e book, project gutenberg, ebabel, e books and all that, epub, e books and other digipubs
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Sep 7, 2008
In my post about the Espresso book machine, I mentioned a non-profit organization called Public Domain Reprints and promised to review the book I had ordered as soon as it arrived. As it happens, I actually have not …
Also tagged: books, google, typography, book publishing, internet archive, pod, print on demand, project gutenberg, web books, p books, net tools, chris meadows
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Aug 27, 2008
The Kindle includes an experimental web browser so I thought I’d see how it worked with some of the public domain sites I frequent. Feedbooks: as we know Feedbooks works just fine in the Kindle. We have an earlier …
Also tagged: amazon, project gutenberg, kindle, amazon kindle, feedbooks, paul biba, manybooks net, munseys
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Aug 24, 2008
Steve Pendergrast of Fictionwise has reported that iPhones seem to be siphoning off Kindle users. But after looking at all of the major apps, it seems to me that the overall state of iPhone e-book options is still …
Also tagged: apple, ebook, ebooks, e books, e book, ereader, mobipocket, stanza, readability, feedbooks, ebabel, e books and all that, epub, e books and other digipubs, e book ergonomics, iphone and touch ipod, chris meadows
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Aug 14, 2008
When is a CAPTCHA not annoying? When it is used to help digitize old public domain texts. CAPTCHAs are those tests that are supposed to verify you are a real human by making you type some distorted letters or numbers …
Also tagged: new york times, ocr, internet archive, scanning, recaptcha, optical character recognition, chris meadows
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Aug 13, 2008
While Teleread largely focuses on the experience of reading an ebook on an ereader, there is a whole other potential use for a digitally-stored text that is often overlooked: the ability to turn it into a …
Also tagged: amazon, library, libraries, book publishing, espresso, internet archive, on demand books, pod, vanity, print on demand, lightning source, libraries schools tech, uncategorized or off topic, p books, digital libraries, chris meadows, lightning print, library of the future
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Jul 9, 2008
Given all the greats, from Austen to Dickens, the 19th century may have been the time for the novel. But zillions of words from then still need to be scanned, and beyond the withdrawal of Microsoft from the public …
Also tagged: google, ebook, ebooks, e books, e book, e books and all that, e books and other digipubs
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Jul 9, 2008
If you spend at least $299 on a qualifying purchase at the Sony Style Store, you get a $100 credit if you use a Sony Visa Card. Does the above apply to $299 Sony Reader? Loopholes? Yes. Read the small print carefully …
Also tagged: ebook, ebooks, sony reader, e books, e book, e books and all that, e books and other digipubs
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Jul 7, 2008
1923–1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain?, in Information Today, offers more details for the public domain-oriented.
Also tagged: ebook, ebooks, e books, e book, e books and all that, e books and other digipubs
teleread.org » TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - Jul 4, 2008
Happy Fourth of July to our readers in the United States—and happy honorary Fourth to those elsewhere. In keeping with this history-rich day, I’ll point to HistoryLessons.net, through which you can sign up for free …
Also tagged: ebook, ebooks, libraries, e books, e book, e books and all that, e books and other digipubs, libraries schools tech