Reading Online @ Simmons Library

How I Learned to Love Reading Online Thursday, February 21, 2008 Beatley Library Simmons College

Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog , Caspar David Friedrich, 1818, PD

Newsweek cover from Nov. 27, 2007

From lawgeek’s flickr account ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdawg/1300241735/ ), last accessed 2/18/08

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Amazon.com’s Kindle storefront ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/133141011 ), last accessed 2/17/08

Sony Stats ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],*PDF can be created using Acrobat Standard or need to be unencrypted

Ebookstore.sony.com, last accessed 2/17/08

Fictionwise & eBookwise ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Image from http:www.ebookwise.com, last accessed 2/17/08

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Other “readers”? Image from Kimbooktu ( http://kimbooktu.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/bookish-wallpaper-ii/ ), last accessed 2/17/08

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

Gphone ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Image from Feb 18, 2008 entry at http://www.google-phone.com/ , last accessed 2/17/08

OLPC From OLPC’s site (http://laptop.org)

Other Mini PCs ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.arbus.com . Last accessed 2/19/08 http://aving.net/usa/news/default.asp , last accessed 2/19/08

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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Where’s the content? Image from http://www.lightupyourworld.nl/en/index_en.html , last accessed 2/17/08

http://books.google.com , last accessed 2/17/08

http://search.live.com , last accessed 2/17/08

http://www.archive.org/details/texts , last accessed 2/17/08

http://www.gutenberg.org/ , last accessed 2/17/08

http://www.dailylit.com/ , last accessed 2/17/08

http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com http://www2.oprah.com http://craphound.com/down/

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