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Kindles, Orwell, Libraries, and Ownership
Hopefully by now everyone has read David Pogue's NYT article about Amazon deleting Orwell's books from its customers' Kindles. Even though it's been covered elsewhere, I wanted to throw in my two...
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A Few Notable News Stories
I usually don't like just reposting things unless I have something intelligent to say about it. Regardless, here are a few news stories I noticed recently that seem to be flying under the radar...
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Reference Question of the Week – 10/31/10
Do you ever wonder how I spend my Saturday nights? Why, advocating library services, of course - here's a Twitter conversation that occurred last weekend about 10pm (read from the bottom up): The two...
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Reference Question of the Week – 1/1/12
As we have come to expect over the last couple years, the first few weeks after the Christmas holidays means a rather dramatic spike in the number of questions about ebooks. The effect this year seemed...
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Freading Ebook Library from Library Ideas, LLC
Last week, a salesman from Library Ideas, LLC, came to demo their new ebook product, Freading. This is the same company that has the DRM-free music download product Freegal, so I was curious to hear...
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Reference Question of the Week – 4/1/12
One night this week, a father brought his eight year old daughter to the desk, along with her new laptop and Nook Touch, and asked that I show her how to download ebooks. This was, hands down, the most...
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How Would You Improve The Overdrive Interface?
Over the weekend, Stephanie tweeted: I thought she was right on (sadly), so I retweeted it. The next day, @OverDriveLibs replied: Good on them for paying attention and being open to ideas. Since...
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A New Overdrive Interface is Coming, Are You Ready?
I think I'm a little behind the curve on this, but since there were so many great comments on how to improve the Overdrive interface, I thought this would be worth talking about. It looks like the new...
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Overdrive is Spreading, and Libraries are Along for the Ride
This seems like something that shouldn't be big news, but I think it's cool and long overdue. I read on Go To Hellman one of those "finally..." posts - Eric had a great idea a long time ago, and now...
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Overdrive App Adds Option for Dyslexic Font
A coworker send me this post from the Overdrive blog: Standard font typefaces are often difficult to read for people with dyslexia as the letters are hard to differentiate and words tend to jumble...
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