The link below is to an article, which though old, will still be a useful introduction to the bookmarking service Diigo. The service is so much more than a bookmarking service though, being a very useful service for research and online library building.
Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.
For more visit:
http://www.knowthenetwork.com/2010/01/turning-links-into-a-library-with-diigo/
The following link is to an article about autobiographies. It is a useful article and well worth the read.
For more visit:
http://www.themillions.com/2012/05/in-defense-of-autobiography.html
The following link is to an article about the YouTube Time Machine, being a useful site for book research.
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/youtube-time-machine-for-book-research_b51048
The link below is to an article that may provide some useful thoughts for those who may be thinking of self-publishing.
For more, visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/apr/30/author-collectives-self-publishing
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/
The link below is to an article dealing with how to bind a book. This is an article that could prove useful to all with damaged books.
For more visit:
http://www.good.is/post/our-winning-how-to-guide-learn-to-bind-a-book
The link below is to an article reporting on the Tree Bookcase. This could be a useful bookcase for a genealogical library perhaps.
For more visit:
http://theblogonthebookshelf.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/tree-bookcase.html
How to Use Pinterest for Quotes
The link below is to a website that allows you to highlight any text and pin it to a Pinterest board. There is a small cost for using the service. The site provides a video on how it works and also examples of how people use it. Pinterest is becoming even more useful.
For more visit:
http://pinaquote.com/
The following article Wired lists five reasons as to why ebooks are not there yet. I would say that ebooks will never be the same as traditional books and they probably are never meant to be the same. I would also say you should probably never expect them to be the same. Television is not the same as going to the movies and never will be. I think waiting for ebooks to be the same as traditional books is to ensure you never use ebooks all that much. Just my opinion.
There are some useful considerations in the five points raised in the article – but there are also some fairly ordinary ones also, which suggest to me a bias against ebooks from the start. Being concerned that ebooks don’t allow you to use them in home design – I mean, really??? If that is a major concern with ebooks – you have to be kidding.
Some years ago I never thought I would ever like ebooks – I love them now and I don’t even have an ebook reader (I use by laptop) at this stage. I can see myself buying one in the near future – that would make ebooks so much more convenient to me. I could read one on a bus or ferry, I could read at work without too many difficulties (in my breaks of course), etc.
How many books can I now own? For a bibliophile like me ebooks are a dream come true. I have well over 1000 traditional books and I will soon eclipse that number in ebooks – many of which are old and out of print works which are very precious to me. These brilliant old books are now so accessible to me and I can store them all in such a small place. Fantastic I say.
See the article mentioned above at:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/all/1
I have been working on getting this volume onto the Tracing our History – History website for some time. I did have about three chapters on the site in HTML format, but have now begun getting the volume up in PDF format. This is taking some time, especially with the large number of footnotes in the text, which I am seeking to have available quickly via links to the footnotes and links that return to the text from the footnotes. The time being spent on this will allow a very good and useful ebook when completed I think. I do have plans to make the entire set of volumes on the History of the United States available over time.
I would recommend the volume I am currently reading (volume 1) as a very good treatment on the European discovery and colonization of the United States. For those outside of the United States (like me) – and quite possibly many within the United States – this work provides a very easy to read and informative history of this period. For those interested in further research, the footnotes provide plenty of material for further reading and investigation, drawing on a wealth of historical material and treatments.
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