It’s summer. Is your child reading—one way to guard against a seasonal slump? Oh, and here’s a very much related question. Are you reading? “You are a role model...Continue reading
Amazon’s new subscription plan for e-book readers is already ammo for library-haters. Check out this gem in Forbes online. The headline I’ve quoted reflects the precise...Continue reading
At first glance, the MIT-designed FingerReader shown in this video looks intriguing for people with print-related challenges. But major catches exist, beyond the robotic voice. Using...Continue reading
Young people love suitable paper books, ideally new, that they can own. Could the same idea work for econo-tablets that public libraries gave away to low-income...Continue reading
Jessica Nunez and her family are just the kind of people who could benefit from well-financed physical libraries, paper books, the digital variety, loans of e-readers,...Continue reading
Should Pew researchers survey Americans on the need for a national digital library endowment and two separate digital library systems—-one public and one academic? Definitely, if...Continue reading
Drat! The newest Kindle Paperwhite E Ink reader from Amazon is still missing text to speech—among the very features Jeff Bezos touted when he unveiled the second Kindle in...Continue reading
A Catch-22 dogs those of us who most often read e-books visually but also want to hear them when we’re exercising or driving. The usual e-bookware doesn’t always...Continue reading
Here’s a heartfelt suggestion for the besieged people at Barnes & Noble, in the spirit of the recommendations that Joanna Cabot and my other friends at...Continue reading
What if Amazon wiped out all your Kindle books and refused to let you open another account? I don’t know what if any sins a customer...Continue reading
For years I’d hoped that OverDrive’s e-book-and-multimedia app for libraries would do all-text bolding. So many library fans have their own wish lists of accessibility features,...Continue reading
Stanza, one of the best e-reading apps around, was brokenwhen Apple upgraded to iOS 5. Amid the uproar from the app’s users, Stanza’s overlords at Amazon...Continue reading
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ballyhooed text to speech in the Kindle 2 in 2009. But guess what’s now missing from the new Paperwhite Kindles even though...Continue reading