The link below is to an article that looks at the web app, ‘How long To read This.’
For more visit:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/08/find-out-how-long-it-will-take-you-to-read-almost-any-book/
Visit How Long To Read This at:
http://www.howlongtoreadthis.com/
The link below is to an article that lists the top book recommendations platforms.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/may/10/top-book-recommendation-platforms-what-are-your-favourites
The link below is to a blog post concerning the latest Instapaper update – highlights.
For more visit:
http://blog.instapaper.com/post/85125160146
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the recently updated web application ‘Instapaper.’ This is a great app that I use myself.
The link below is to an article that takes a look at NewsToEbook, a web application that turns your news feed into an ebook.
For more visit:
http://ebookfriendly.com/newstoebook-feed-to-epub-mobi/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at Stumblary, which is a web application that seeks to be the StumbleUpon for ebooks – it has a way to go.
For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/11/17/stumblary-wants-stumbleupon-ebooks/
During the latter half of the naughties (2000s), Digg was one of the premier destinations on the web. If your story ended up on the front page of Digg, then you were rewarded by hundreds of thousands of page views, quite a bounty considering publishers big and small made (and still make money) for page-view based advertising. The traffic bump came to be known as the Digg effect (much like being Slashdotted.) Digg, obviously fell on hard times and it was just over a year ago, it was acquired by New York-based technology and media company, Betaworks.
John Borthwick, chief executive of Betaworks, had a plan — Digg still was a good brand and was an ideal vehicle for his vision of a social-data powered recommendation service and news reader. The early attempt at that social news reader, News.me, hadn’t really gone anywhere and they were ready to shut it…
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Looking for new books to add to your summer reading list? You probably already know to check sources like Goodreads and the New York Times book reviews, but that’s not always enough. Here are a few of my favorite non-obvious sources for online book recommendations.
This free, twice-weekly email newsletter from book trade publication Shelf Awareness launched in 2011 and is still one of my favorite places to learn about new books. The newsletter comes out on Tuesdays and Fridays (or you can read it online) and in each issue, independent booksellers and reviewers recommend 25 books that have just hit stores. While some bestsellers from big authors are included, plenty of books from small presses and debut authors are also included, making this a good place to learn about books you probably wouldn’t have heard of otherwise.
Bookateria, which launched…
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Libboo is a book recommendation service/application that I have mentioned before. The link below is to an article that reviews the book recommendation service.
For more visit:
http://www.futurebook.net/content/testing-libboo-authors-view
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