Top Ten Links Week 6
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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/5/2010 thru 2/11/2010
- follow the UK Transliteracy conference here – the UK conference on Transliteracy was on Tuesday, if you missed coverage has been archived on the site.
- Evolution of the Book – cool graph of the evolution of books
- The State of the Internet- another cool graphic from Stephen
- 20 Inspiring Women To Follow On Twitter from Forbes – I don’t know about you, but I can always use more inspirational women in my life.
- LISnew is holding its first ever essay contest. yes there are prizes! go write your submission now! or read the entries.
- ALA |Library Snapshot Day: A Day in the Life of Your Library: April 2010 – for those of you who enjoy the Library Day in the Life Project here is something similar from ALA, photograph a single day at your library to showcase what happens in the entire library in a single day
- “I predict that Apple will sell a gazillion. & it won’t be to ppl who have even heard of multi-tasking” and article from Wired with a nice quip to remind us techies that we aren’t the target audience of the iPad.
- 5 Tips for Trainers to Prevent TechFail – Technology failure during training (or presentations) is a nightmare here are 5 great times from Maurice Coleman in a post on ALA Learning.
- From OCLC’s Newletter: The global scope of library activity – great summary with numbers
- NYTimes: Publishers Win a Bout in E-Book Price Fight – we are going to see a lot of changes in the ebook industry over the next year, pricing is just one.
Vooks = Books + Online Video = Tranliteracy
A vook blends the text of a book with video into one story. I’m fascinated by this new this new multimedia approach to books. I have no idea if it will be successful, I can’t really see the appeal for fiction, but for something like a fitness or other how-to books I can see having a video as an advantage for demonstration. Think of all the how-to videos on YouTube. You get the advantages of text and video in one.
Part of my fascination is due to the great example of transliteracy this provides. It is providing information through multiple media formats. We often see text in videos or on images. We are used to seeing videos embedded on websites and blogs. This does seem like the next logical step. But I wonder if it will really take off, maybe for a small market
I’d like to see this affect ereaders, they can display text and images, and we are all waiting for color, why not video too?
- Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included
- What is a Vook and will it change how you read?
- Books + Online Video = Vooks: Watchable, Readable, & Very Cool
- Apple Tablet Books Need to Be Better than Vooks
The Nook from Barnes & Noble – I Want One, Here’s Why
I’m more excited about the Nook than I have been about any other ebook reader. This might be the one that finally gets me to buy one. Why?
8 Reasons You Can Finally Love Ebook Readers (Thanks to Nook) from Gizmodo
- It’s cost-effective even with Wi-Fi, native PDF support, an SD slot and that crazy second screen makes it seem out of the Kindle’s league.
- Lending and Sharing – 2 week loans to you can lend to tons of different devices: Mac, PC, iPhone, iPod Touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile (soon).
- Free in-store reading - take the Nook to any of Barnes & Noble’s stores and read one ebook, for free, each time—the same way you might wander into the store, pick up a book and read it for an hour or two. (I do this!)
- Head-turning looks
- Android – two things to be excited about when it comes to Android. First is the legit apps, which B&N seems open to. Second the more illicit possibilities: The Nook both runs Android (which we already know is easily and enthusiastically modified) and has a microUSB jack, which should make for easy hacking
- The second screen - a keyboard and Cover-Flow-esque browsing in color without the awkwardness and lethargy of e-ink, allows for multitasking. You’ll be able to read a book and control your music at the same time, and because the music browser will be on the LCD screen, it won’t look like e-inked crap.
- Battery Life – 10-days and it’s replaceable!
- Both 3G and Wi-Fi
From the New York Times Live Blog: Barnes & Noble Unveils E-Reader
The digital books in Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore are available in either epub or Adobe Pdf format. Customers who want to buy books in those formats from other digital bookstores may do so and transfer them onto the Nook, but those who want to buy e-books directly from the device will be connected to Barnes & Noble’s own bookstore.
From the Wall Street Journal Live From the Nook Launch (Don’t Call It a Kindle)
Digits commenter provides useful info: Derek writes, “Just bought 2 online – Per invoice ‘Expected Ship Date: November 30, 2009′.”
I have just one question – Will they play ball with libraries?
See more:
- Watch a video demo Barnes & Noble Nook Up Close: Yep, It’s Real Nice
- Compare to the Kindle
- Barnes & Noble Compares Nook to Kindle 2: Biased But Fair
- Barnes & Noble Unveils Kindle-Killing, Dual-Screen ‘Nook’ E-Reader (Updated)
- Pre order one
- Nook is Coming: Barnes & Noble’s Kindle Killer
The future of the book – Possible or Probable
This is an interesting videos from Editis, a French publisher on the future of the book. Its a bit long, but worth a watch. Now I don’t speak any French but here is what I *think* I saw happening
- scanning barcodes of book at a traditional bookstore to purchase them on the ebook reader
- touchscreen
- interactive
- color
- write on the books with a stylus
- multimedia content – the guide books
- sharing copies from one ereader to the next
- magazines
- blogs
- books
- music
If this were available today I’d buy one right now.
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