Via The Centered Librarian…..Lendle is a service that connect users of the Kindle or Kindle app to one another to facilitate loaning of certain Kindle books. Users sign up for Lendle and submit lists of owned Kindle books. Those looking to borrow a book can choose from lists submitted by other Lendle users. Unfortunately, not [...]
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Download library books to iphone and ipod touch–finally
As I prepared for winter holiday trips this past December, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Overdrive had finally updated their app for the iphone and ipod touch, allowing some library books to be downloaded directly through the app. Previously, it was only possible to download audio books either through a computer and uploaded to [...]
ode to e-books
On the day after the big ipad release what the world doesn’t need now is another post about current e-book trends and what the ipad will do to revolutionize the medium. But I’m still going to do it. Why? Back in July, I gave a big “thanks, but no thanks” to e-books. While I continue [...]
Running to e-books? Not me.
I have been trying to gather my thoughts concerning e-books for awhile now, after I heard about possible initiatives by California’s governor to switch out e-books for textbooks and similar initiatives in other states. While e-books were touted as he next big thing years ago, they didn’t seem to really hit the big time until [...]
