Category: Books
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Are you in NZ? Want a free book? NZ bans award-winning YA novel after complaints from conservative Christian group
I first heard about this on BoingBoing, and followed up with several other articles: Book case study – Into the River New Zealand bans award-winning teenage novel after outcry from Christian group Censorship is alive in New Zealand. I should know: my book was banned We read the novel New Zealand just banned for sex…
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Humble “School’s Out” Bundle
Totally reproducing a press release here, but there is no affiliate link included, it's just a friendly FYI if you've got kids interested in programming (or like to learn at a kids' level 😉 Summer can be tough on kids, and cabin fever can be even worse for parents. But with the new ebook bundle…
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Amazon.ca now supported by Library Extension for Chrome
Following up on a post from earlier this summer, the developer of this excellent extension for Chrome has now updated it to include Amazon.ca. (And the University of Calgary) Remember to choose your library(ies) from the Options menu in Tools / Extensions:
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Thinking the unthinkable – doing away with the library catalogue (UKSG)
Here's a thought-provoking talk given by Simone Kortekaas of Utrecht University Library in the Netherlands at this year's UKSG conference. In it, she talks about how they decided to do away with their discovery tool and steer users to Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus. Utrecht appears to be a science-heavy institution. The title…
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Calgary Public Library now supported by Library Extension (Chrome)
Yay, the Chrome Library Extension now supports Calgary Public Library. When you're on Amazon.com (not Amazon.ca though), a small box will appear to the right to tell you whether you could borrow a book you're looking at from CPL, either in paper or via Overdrive. I've asked that the UofC be added as well, and…
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Open Sourcing the Wellcome Library
I've had this open in one of my tabs for weeks, and just haven't made the time to play with it further, but it's definitely worth checking out – so go do it! The Wellcome Library ("We are one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history. We also offer a growing…
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Adobe backs down: We Didn’t Mean to Use DRM to Break Your eBook Readers
A quick follow up from yesterday’s post, again from The Digital Reader, in which Adobe smartly reverses course and will not cause many loser devices to stop working with their DRM after all. Of course, DRM still sucks. Posted with Blogsy
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Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users
Ooh, this doesn't sound good. The Digital Reader is reporting that come July, 2014, Adobe will be requiring vendors and hardware to support an updated version of their DRM (Digital Rights Management) solution. So what, you ask? "This means that any app or device which still uses the older Adobe DRM will be cut off.…