The PowerPoint from a presentation at the 2011 Pacific Northwest Library Association conference.

1. Packaged Paper on Digital Devices: Expanding the Professional and Personal Value of eReaders PNLA 2011 Lorena O’English Washington State University Libraries oenglish@wsu.edu Twitter, Skype, Yahoo/GTalk IM: wsulorena http://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/edocs

2. Me… Kindle 2 for Christmas 2009 A love of Victorian/Edwardian novels (some of which were not Kindle-friendly…) Jesse Bell/Mrs George de Horne Vaizey Lots and lots of papers under my desk at work… Reports Articles Reports (If you like L.M. Montgomery or Louisa May Alcott, you’ll probably like her too!)

3. I Discovered calibre… http://calibre-ebook.com/

4. calibre and Metadata

5. calibre and Conversion

6. Limitations of calibre It’s easy, or its hard. No columns or non-image tables (flowing issues) Word docs must be saved as RTF or html Updates require a reinstall (although most are not essential) Not really for creating complex, full-featured ebooks DRM? http://xkcd.com/208/

7. Advantages of calibre Ebook/document/webpage conversion to read on ereaders and smartphones Can set up auto-delivery of online blogs, newspapers, and more. Works with many, many ebook formats Metadata, searching, organizing, catalog Archiving Can use as it a server and access your etexts wirelessly Developer and user community (mobilereads) DRM?

8. So Of Course I Blogged About It (and newlettered about it)… Kindle + Calibre (with a dash of Samsung Moment...) Another 'Lorena's Look' – More on Ebooks and Ereaders

9. Online Converters: 2EPUB http://www.2epub.com/

10. Online Converters: Epub2Go http://www.epub2go.com

11. Online Creator: GrabMyBookshttp://www.grabmybooks.com/

12. Limitations of Online Converters and Creators Limited file size Limited formats – input and output Your stuff is on their servers – watch out for proprietary or sensitive information! Some services look a bit dodgy…read comments and reviews carefully!

13. EPUBReader(Firefox add-on)https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/epubreader/

14. Content Repackaging and Creation Libraries tend to focus internally on process and externally on content Interested in how mobile formats could be used to repackage/create useful resources for the WSU community – documents, rather than books….

15. Why Convert or Create for eReaders and Smartphones? Always with you/your user/your worker/your student/etc. Device/app affordances: bookmark, highlight, annotate, text-to-speech, share Edocs (EPUB/mobi) flow better than PDF files on a smaller screen Font sizes can be changed; background can be changed (white on black, sepia) Once downloaded, they don’t need a Web connection They can’t be edited Sustainability issues: paperless

16. Issues Can’t require people to load your edocs on their devices Device idiosyncrasies Complex formatting doesn’t work well (columns and text tables are right out…) They can be annotated and more if the device allows, but can’t be edited.

17. I Offered a Class (via WSU HRS)

18. TheUser Community The share of adults in the United States who own an e-book reader doubled to 12% in May, 2011 from 6% in November 2010. E-reader Ownership Doubles in Six Months http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/E-readers-and-tablets/Report.aspx

19. They *Like* Their Smartphones! A lot… Smartphone Adoption and Usage http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Smartphones/Summary.aspx

20. Focus on College Students When it comes to accessing the internet on a mobile device such as a laptop or cell phone, young non-students (79% of whom are wireless users) are a bit less likely to go online wirelessly than either under- graduate or graduate students, but notably more likely than the overall adult population to do so. These differences in wireless usage between students and non-students are largely driven by differences in laptop computer ownership. College Students and Technology http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/College-students-and-technology/Report.aspx

21. Documents and Digital Deviceshttp://libguides.wsulibs.wsu.edu/edocs Documents and Digital Devices: Home Devices and Reading Apps Acquiring Documents eBook formats Converting documents Organizing Documents Reading Documents Social Reading Creating and Editing eBooks (from scratch) Coda eReaderxTras: Add-on Tools and Services A Work in Progress!

22. Class Comments and Interests Will definitely use personally, and can see many apps for work, to carry policy docs, etc., with me.. Calibre is far more powerful than I had realized or explored. You really have me thinking in terms of professional! Interests: finding free books, OverDrive, device advice…

23. An Example: Word to EPUB viewed on an iPad

24. Closing Thoughts Is a journal PDF (without ADE) an object under DRM? Issues of the digital divide (although less for smartphones) It’s still all about the Betamax… Power and charge…Lorena's Power Law of Smartphones: Most of the time when you really need your smartphone, it will be out of power.

25. eLagniappe: Screenreading Tools Readability – ease of eye Works with InstaPaperand Kindle ($) ScrollyFox – autoscroller (FF only) InstaPaper – save websites/documents for later Works with InstaPaper, and the Kindle and iPhone/Pad