Have you ever accidentally used your town’s website to search for a book instead of your local library website?
Funny, I just went to do a search for a book in my local library. But instead of pulling up the library’s website, I accidentally …
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New habit: always have a library book on loan
Imagine every two weeks always having a new book to read. Sounds great, right? You could accomplish this with a subscription to Amazon Kindle Unlimited. …
Book spines restrict the knowledge of pages
Harvard is cutting spines off books to digitize them (per an article from goodreader.com). Your first reaction might be, ‘OH NO! NOT THE SPINES! OUR …
Goodreads signups double for two years straight
(Read the rest of the infographic at goodreads.com) Merge social media with books and you get the fantastic site Goodreads.com. If you love books and …
2014 will be the year of interdisciplinary
2013 was the year of lists. Will 2014 continue the heavy use of lists? Yes, 2014 will bring more lists. Specifically for the masses, there …
Not short enough for a kindle preview
It’s ironic that the introduction in the book “How to Write Short” is too long. The table of contents is not viewable in the Amazon …
Grocery shopping can be a simile for reading books
Books and shopping baskets. They really quite similar. While shopping with my girlfriend yesterday, I held the basket while she picked them items and handed …
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Digital comics war heats up
This is the most hilarious thing all month! I think it might take the cake for funniest thing I’ve seen so far all of 2013! …
ebook marginalia, ebook lending, and used ebook lending
Joel Mathis makes these three great points in: “Three features we’d want in an Amazon used ebooks marketplace” 1) All ebooks should retain their marginalia …
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When B&N abandons hardware, what should they do next?
Barnes and Noble should abandon the device market in favor of innovating in other areas of ebooks. states O’Reilly’s Joe Wikert. He’s right on with …
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