Category Archives: ebooks – general

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Article: Sending Reading Material to the Kindle

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The link below is to an article that reports on how to send reading material to a Kindle – very useful for Kindle owners.

For more visit:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/04/how-to-send-anything-to-your-kindle-for-reading-later/

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Article: The End of the Book Cover?

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The link below is to an article reporting on the future of the book cover in the digital age.

For more visit:
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/has-kindle-killed-the-book-cover/255935/

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Article: Kindle Books

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Does Lower Price Mean Lower Quality?

The link below is to an article that discusses the pricing of Kindle books and the corresponding quality of them.

For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reno-charlton/kindle-book-prices_b_1415509.html

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Article: How to Finish Reading a Book

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The link below is to an article that offers some suggestions on how to complete books that you start to read. I think it is probably a fairly common problem, having a book (or many) lying about that you haven’t been able to finish. I seem to have this problem increasingly these days, so perhaps there are some tips here to help.

For more visit:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/04/how-to-actually-finish-the-books-you-want-to-read/

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Article: Ebooks & Society

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The link below is to an article that discusses our ebook future and how society will be affected by them.

For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kennedy/ebooks-and-the-privatizat_b_1435043.html

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Article: Ebook Publishing

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The link below is to an article that explores the new world of ebook publishing.

For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-kukral/ebook-publishing_b_1428197.html

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Podcast: Literary Disco

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The link below is to a website that hosts the podcast ‘Literary Disco.’ The podcast is all about books, including detailed reviews of books. So have a listen and see what you think. I’ll be listening to a few before deciding whether to continue doing so or not.

For more visit:
http://www.literarydisco.com/

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Article: Books We Return To

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The link below is to an article that looks at the books we like to read again and again.

For more visit:
http://www.themillions.com/2012/04/the-books-we-come-back-to.html

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Article: Ebooks and Reading

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The link below is to an article that looks at ebooks and reading.

For more visit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/sunday-review/the-way-we-read-now.html

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Article: Ebooks and the Brain

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The link below is to an article reporting on how our brain adapts to using ebooks and the like. What do you think of this article? A bit too much of the psycho babble perhaps?

For more visit:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nature-brain-and-culture/201102/the-problem-the-web-and-e-books-is-there-s-no-space-them