“Summer Camp For Book Nerds”
“At the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School, what the books say is not as important as how they were made.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/c/embed/c52406e0-2e2f-11e4-be9e-60cc44c01e7f
Oooo This looks like fun!
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LeVar Burton Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Revive ‘Reading Rainbow’
The popular children’s show host is aiming to raise $1 million to bring his beloved children’s show to the web.
LeVar Burton Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Revive ‘Reading Rainbow’ Video – TheWrap.
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Book Traces: A New Crowdsourced Project Collecting Marginalia and Inserts in 19th and Early 20th Century Books | LJ INFOdocket
This is right up my alley. I love marginalia.
“A New Crowdsourced Project Collecting Marginalia and Inserts in 19th and Early 20th Century Books”
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Complaint Asks Library To Remove ‘Hop On Pop’ Because It Promotes Violence Against Dads – Consumerist
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Spritz is here
In regards to a recent blog post, here:
https://librarianitm.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/readquick-from-ifive-for-the-iphone-ep-54/
… the app SPRITZ is finally out! Can’t wait to try it. Getting it now… :)
Updated to add:
Spritz by GSense https://appsto.re/us/8ALXY.i
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Samsung partners with Amazon for custom Kindle eBook service
Samsung partners with Amazon for custom Kindle eBook service
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From Jane Devin: What It’s About: Anne Rice’s Petition to Amazon
From Jane Devin: What It’s About: Anne Rice’s Petition to Amazon
“Anne Rice has been in the news lately for more than her novels. The legendary author, who has sold over 100 million books to date, is backing a petition which aims to get Amazon to recognize and do something about a small, but particularly spiteful anti-author hate group that has taken root in their community forums…”
Read More:
http://janedevin.com/2014/03/07/rices_petition_to_amazon/
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ReadQuick, from iFive for the iPhone, ep 54
I was looking for this app I remembered from a while ago, I found a review of it here in this video below, it’s called Readquick. Like that article I posted yesterday about an upcoming app on unspecified devices that doesn’t exist yet, called “spritz”, *this* iPhone app, Readquick, already exists and a lot of people really like it. It presents articles one word at a time. I never thought I’d like using it, myself, but after trying the bits in that article yesterday, I found myself wishing I could try it. So I might try Readquick. It integrates with various apps where you save web articles to read later, like my favorite, “Pocket“. Thing is, it’s expensive. It’s 9.99 right now, so I’m gonna add it to AppShopper (another app I love!) so that I get an alert when there is a price drops. I love AppShopper. Not only does it alert me when something on my list drops in price, but you can view the price history of the app, to see how often it goes on sale.
See the video review here, on “iFive for the iPhone” episode 54,
item number 2… at 2:09 in:
http://twit.tv/show/ifive-iphone/54
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Article: This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes
This is really cool!
“This Insane New App Will Allow You To Read Novels In Under 90 Minutes”
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..::TIP::.. Text To Speech on iPad, iPhone and Kindle
I get a lot of good feedback on this video, so I figured I’d re-post it. It’s a tad bit out of date but still 95% accurate.
Here is a video I made about Text-To-Speech on the iPad, iPhone and Kindle:
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Librarian in the Making. 