The link below is to an iPad app, which allows you to turn pages by simply turning your head. It could be useful for say turning a page while cooking (recipe) and you aren’t able to touch the screen and other miscellaneous situations. It also performs some other reading functions which are described on the site. The app is currently free in the iTunes store.
For more visit:
http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/id505117386
Do you have a serious reading problem? Are you a Bookaholic? Then this comic linked to below will certainly amuse you.
For more visit:
http://twentytwowords.com/2012/07/22/bookaholic/
The link below is to an article that looks at ebook buying and our to read lists.
For more visit:
http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/e-content/real-truth-about-ebook-purchasing
I’ve always had a thing for books. Well, certainly since I was able to afford buying them when I began my working life anyway. I devour books – have done for years. Many years in fact. Traditional books are everywhere in my house and have been in every house wherever I lived, whether a small place or large. Even when living in a caravan park for a while, with the vast majority of my books in storage I kept at it – buying and hoarding books. Not rubbish books – I don’t collect garbage! Which makes me a little different from the author of the article linked to below.
With the advent of ebooks, my hoarding ways have continued. Sure, I have stopped hoarding traditional books (more of them anyway – at any great speed – just the odd one here and there). I now hoard ebooks and I have a virtual truckload of them – possibly two. However, I still refuse to collect rubbish.
For more on hoarding ebooks visit:
http://www.northcentralpa.com/feeditem/2012-07-14_ebook-hoarding
The link below is to an article that looks into what books would encourage reluctant readers to actually read.
For more visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/jul/05/recommend-books-boys-reading.
The link below is to a website called the ‘Underground New York Public library.’ The site is a photographic record of people reading books on the New York City Subway. In essence it is a photography Blog of people reading.
For more visit:
http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/
The link below is to an article that reports on ‘taking a book’s temperature.’ In other words, is it cold, hot or warm?
For more visit:
http://bookriot.com/2012/07/13/hot-reads-cold-reads-taking-a-books-temperature/
I doubt too many people will be surprised by the article linked to below. Children of the entertainment age are no longer reading because of short attention spans and a lack of reading in the home.
For more visit:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9342391/Children-with-short-attention-spans-failing-to-read-books.html
The link below is to an infographic flowchart that aims to assist you in your reading over the Summer (northern hemisphere). Here is Australia it is of course winter.
For more visit:
http://www.flavorwire.com/297601/the-ultimate-summer-reading-flowchart
The link below is to an Infographic – ‘Do E-Reader Owners Read More Books?’
For more visit:
http://mashable.com/2012/06/01/e-reading-trends/
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