Adobe DRM: A tip for Kobo e-reader fans and a plea for DRM-control laws
My Amazon Kindles, even the $290 Oasis, won't do all-text bold regardless of all the pleas from me and others to jeff@amazon.com and friends.
So shouldn't I use my Kobo Aura H2O instead to enjoy OverDrive library...
Amazon is rolling back the anorexic Helvetica in the latest Kindle update—but the job...
(Updated early Feb. 11, 2016.)
Props to Amazon, sort of. The Helvetica font will be restored to a more readable weight than the anorexic one in the latest update for E Ink...
Voice Dream Reader 4.0 TTS app: ‘Pac-Man mode’ boosts reading speed—plus new sync feature...
Voice Dream Reader, the text to speech champ, is out with a new version for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. A "Pac-Man mode" is said to help you double your reading speed "with no...
Reinventing brick-and-mortar libraries for the e-book era: Intriguing clues in Vancouver
How to reinvent brick-and-mortar libraries for the e-book era---when you can download library books at home?
For clues, we might look to Vancouver. Planners want to leverage the library's role as a public gathering space. The renovation...
Kobo tells writers how to sell more e-books: Who says Amazon is the champ...
Novelist-blogger Joanna Penn interviewed Mark Lefebvre---Director of Self Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo---under a sponsored content arrangement. Ahead is her summary of topics. Keep in mind that Amazon isn't the sales leader everywhere, so, especially if you live outside the U.S., you might well find the video worth your time. What's more, Kobo has corporate ties with the OverDrive library service.
500K+ articles from JSTOR available to everyone for free
From a JSTOR Announcement:
On September 6, 2011, we announced that we are making journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870...
How to manage your library, ebooks with cataloging apps
A blog post from Emily VanBuren at Inside Higher Ed, detailing apps for cataloging and organizing your library, dating from 2014, moved me to look at more up-to-date - and cross-platform...
EBSCO CEO Tim Collins: Library e-book business models must be sustainable
EBSCO started out as a magazine index, but the company has continued to grow and evolve. It now represents a discovery service and e-book aggregator in addition to doing more with...
Kindles vs. the elderly: AARP looking into need for all-bold text—and that’s not the...
An AARP staffer is contacting Amazon to see what it will do about the Kindle's lack of all-bold capability---needed by so many older owners and potential owners.
Even the new $290 Kindle Oasis lacks this essential...
The Public Collection: Indianapolis’s own ‘Big Free Libraries’
I don’t often run across TeleRead stories in person, though it does happen from time to time. Oddly enough, the story I came across lately actually happened in the very same...