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Tag Archives: iPad
Guest Post: Schrödinger’s Ebook Box
For Marlene’s birthday I got her a new iPad. Since her work involves reading and reviewing ebooks, and since the iPad has become her primary ebook reader, transferring the books from her old iPad to the new one was critical. … Continue reading
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NetGalley April Read-A-Thon
It’s April, which means it’s time for the quarterly NetGalley catch-up month at Red House Books. Emily has declared this month to be a Read-A-Thon, a chance to clear some of the backlog of NetGalley books and just plain maintenance … Continue reading
Posted in NetGalley Month, NetGalley Review-a-Thon
Tagged Bluefire, book reviews, books and reading, ebooks, iPad, NetGalley, TBR
Introducing Ebook Review Central
So what is “Ebook Review Central“? I’m so glad you asked. Every Monday, Ebook Review Central will publish a list of all the ebooks published by a particular publisher the previous month, with links to all the published reviews. Today’s … Continue reading
Posted in book reviews, Ebook Review Central, ebooks
Tagged book reviews, Carina Press, collection development, ebook publishers, ebooks, iPad, Kindle, librarians, libraries, NetGalley, Nook, OverDrive, public libraries
On the shoulders of giants: Steve Jobs RIP
When I heard the news about Steve Jobs last night, I was reading a book. On my iPad. My husband found out because he was checking blogs. On his iPad. What did I do when he told me? I looked … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Steve Jobs
Tagged iPad, libraries
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Where ebooks? There ebooks!
Last night, we had our first guest come to the house since we put up our books. It reminded me of an essay I read in Wired a couple of weeks ago that has generated a lot of comments on … Continue reading
Posted in books, ebooks
Tagged books, ebooks, fantasy, iPad, OverDrive, personal libraries, science fiction, TBR
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Reading is a solitary pursuit
Reading is generally a solitary pursuit, but there are exceptions. I started to write that people who love to read generally learned by being read to as a child. I realized that the other way of learning to love reading … Continue reading
Are eTBRs easier to forget?
A thread in rec.arts.sf.written that was discussing the merits of ereaders vs. “dead tree” books raised some interesting corollary questions that don’t seem to have anything to do with the technology per se. They seem more like unintended consequences. Bookshelves have inherent … Continue reading
