reading online @ simmons library
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Slides for How I Learned to Love Reading Online: Thursday, February 21, 1-2pm, L225, part of the Your Life at the Library series.TRANSCRIPT
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How I Learned to Love Reading Online
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Beatley Library
Simmons College
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Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818, PD
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Newsweek cover from Nov. 27, 2007
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From lawgeek’s flickr account (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdawg/1300241735/), last accessed 2/18/08
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Kindle details
• $399 for device• 10.3 ounces• 6 inch display• Holds “hundreds” of books• Wireless connection using 3G
network
• Supports MOBI, Microsoft Word, HTML, TXT, PRC and image files
• Newspapers, magazines, blogs, & books
• Doesn’t require a computer• Keyboard• Not backlit• OED loaded• Wikipedia• $.10 for wireless conversion• PDF??
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Amazon.com’s Kindle storefront (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/133141011), last accessed 2/17/08
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Sony Stats
• PRS-500 series• $299 for device• 9 ounces• 6 inch display• Internal memory holds up to 80
books• Connects to computer via UPB• BBeB Book, TXT, RTF, PDF*,
Microsoft Word • Not backlit
• No keyboard• Bookmarks• Switch Screen orientation
*PDF can be created using Acrobat Standard or need to be unencrypted
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Ebookstore.sony.com, last accessed 2/17/08
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Fictionwise & eBookwise
•eBookwise-1150
•$110 plus shipping
•18 ounces
•Screen the size of a paperback
•Backlit screen
•Memory: 8MB internal flash (10 books)
•Can add up to 128MB card (200 books)
•Rechargeable battery
• Rocketbook, TXT, RTF, HTML, & Microsoft Word
•Does not support PDF
Image from http:www.ebookwise.com, last accessed 2/17/08
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Other readers available
UBIT’s walkbook•Supports: PDF, TXT, DOC, HTML, MP3, WOL and image files
•$310
•Istanbul, Turkey
Bookeen’s Cybook•Supports: PDF, TXT, HTML, PDB, Mobi, MP3 and image files
•$350
iRex Iliad
•Supports: PDF / HTML / TXT / JPG /
BMP/ PNG
•$699
•8.1” screen
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Other “readers”?
Image from Kimbooktu (http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/bookish-wallpaper-ii/), last accessed 2/17/08
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iphone
3.5 inch screen
5 hour battery life?
Not technically an ebook devices, but . . .
Textonphone.com
Image from http://www.apple.com, last accessed 2/17/08
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Gphone
•Big question mark
•No delivery date
•Software only
•Ebook capabilities?
Image from Feb 18, 2008 entry at http://www.google-phone.com/, last accessed 2/17/08
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OLPC
From OLPC’s site (http://laptop.org)
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Other Mini PCs
Kojinsha E8 subnotebook •Windows XP•AMD Goede LX800 processor•512MB of memory•Touch screen (1024x600 resolution)•Memory card slot•USB port•3.5 hours of continuous use time •Between $529 and $635
EEE PC from Asus•Linux operating system •900 MHz Intel Mobile CPU •4 GB of solid state memory.•7-inch wide color LCD with an 800 x 480-pixel resolution •Memory card slot•3 USB 2.0 ports•3.5 hours of continuous use time•$400 at Amazon.com•Selection of colors: White, Black, Pink, Blue, & Green
http://www.arbus.com. Last accessed 2/19/08http://aving.net/usa/news/default.asp, last accessed 2/19/08
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Polymer Vision’s Readius
Image from 1/22/09 Wired blogs(http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/01/readius-ebook-p.html_, last accessed 2/17/08
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Polymer Vision’s Readius
Good News• Cell phone & ebook
reader
• 5” Flexible screen
• Download content wihtout USB
Bad News• Tri-band phone
• For European market only
• Release?
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Where’s the content?
Image from http://www.lightupyourworld.nl/en/index_en.html,
last accessed 2/17/08
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http://books.google.com, last accessed 2/17/08
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http://search.live.com, last accessed 2/17/08
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http://www.archive.org/details/texts, last accessed 2/17/08
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http://www.gutenberg.org/, last accessed 2/17/08
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http://www.dailylit.com/, last accessed 2/17/08
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http://www.the-future-of-ideas.comhttp://www2.oprah.com http://craphound.com/down/