Tag: e-reading

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| March 15, 2011

a problem of distance

Increasingly often, these days, I find myself picking up a magazine I subscribe to, starting to read, and then putting...

| February 1, 2011

teaching e-books

I’ve been teaching The Lord of the Rings pretty much every year for the past decade, and as a result my old copy of...

| January 25, 2011

books owned and leased

Tim Spalding: We used to own our books. With most ebooks we own them in name, but effectively we lease them. As Jane...

| December 15, 2010

paginating, embedding

Two cool posts from if:book: first, a defense of the value of pagination, even in digital texts: It’s important...

| December 1, 2010

Daily Lit

Here’s the place to go if you would like to have books emailed to you in installments, at a frequency you set...

| November 24, 2010

copia

If I think of Copia as a standard, everyday way of reading, it seems like a nightmare to me. But if I think of it as a...

| November 24, 2010

material developments

So what should e-readers be made of? How about, let’s see — yes: paper. This article reports on the use of paper as...

| November 11, 2010

plusses and minuses

. . . of the iPad as a reading device. The minuses: Terrible screen glare, even indoors. Fingerprints on the screen are...