How to read ebooks on a $20 cellphone: 72 Tips for the cash-strapped
When I ran across $20 cell phones on Amazon, I couldn’t resist buying one to see if I could read e-books on it. Yes, I could—hour...Continue reading
Author: David Rothman
On Tablets, Summer Reading, and Parental Role Models for Young Readers
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
Hip Video Explains All-Digital Library in Bexar County, Texas
–Read an e-book at home or in the library, or a digital comic or graphic novel. –Maybe even read E to your visiting child if you’re...Continue reading
‘Close The Libraries And Buy Everyone An Amazon Kindle Unlimited Subscription’ – Forbes
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
Amazon, please unmute the Kindle Paperwhite: No need for the workaround shown in this video, when TTS chips cost next to nothing!
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
Should public libraries give away ebook-friendly tablets to poor people? $38 tablet hints of possibilities
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
eBooks and Public Libraries vs. Cruise Ship Subsidies in Miami-Dade County, FL
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
New Pew survey helps show need for full-strength digital libraries— especially if we’re to help Hispanics, African-Americans and the poor.
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
Ouch! Text to speech is also AWOL from THIS year’s Paperwhite from Amazon
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
Review: Voice Dream Reader e-reading app
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
Saving Barnes & Noble from itself: The DRM angle
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
Amazon’s zapping of customer’s Kindle library shows why we need library-provided ‘content lockers’ for e-books and perhaps other media
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
All-text bold, multiple columns, other capabilities enhance OverDrive’s upgraded library app for iPads, iPhones and Touches
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
Good news for Stanza fans: It apparently works under Apple’s new iOS6
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
No text to speech in Amazon’s new Paperwhite Kindles: Why? To push us toward Fire tablets and boost Amazon-owned Audible?
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