Category: Books
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Canadian DMCA (Bill C-32) is an improvement
If it makes Access Copyright unhappy, and the Canadian Library Association happy(ish), Canada's newly-proposed Copyright Modernization Act must be doing something right. It's still got a major flaw in that it's always illegal to crack a digital lock, which effectively removes many of the rights the Bill introduces. As always, Michael Geist has all the…
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Holy inkstains, Batman! Another Library Comic?!?
Actually I suspect (hope?) there are even more out there, but after Rex Libris, now comes Library Wars! Very interesting couple of comments down at the bottom you should check out. "In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their…
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Weapon of Mass Instruction
I used to have a sticker showing some books with the text "Weapons of Mass Instruction" on my laptop, but I think this example of a Weapon of Mass Instruction is better by far!
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An eReader I *could* get before you!
While I don’t think I will, I can now pick up the Kobo ebook reader at Walmart here in Canada, as well as at several bookstores. where can you buy it in the States? You can’t yet, but will be able to next month. Sorry, it’s just so rare that Canada gets anything close to…
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A quick review of The Screencasting Handbook
As I'm wrapping up my preparation for my screencasting workshop next weekend at CIL2010, I finally got around to reading my copy of the forthcoming book, The Screencasting Handbook, by Ian Ozsvald, and thought I'd provide a quick review. Ian's releasing this book in stages; it's not done yet, though you can buy it at…
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Relais International announces the next generation resource sharing solution
This could prove interesting and useful for consortia that support distance students: Relais International announces D2D – Discovery to Delivery – the next generation resource sharing solution. From the writeup at Library Technology guides: D2D allows users to search across multiple catalogs and targets to find items held by their library and library partners. Targets…
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The strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads
Oooh, Dan D’Agostino, Collection Development Librarian at the University of Toronto, has an excellent guest post at TeleRead where he starts to nail the current problem with academic ebooks; namely that they’re not downloadable. This is the first in a two? part post that examines the strange case of academic libraries and e-books nobody reads. …
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eBooks on The Current
Part 3 of yesterday’s The Current on CBC was a 26-minute piece on eBooks; mostly about pricing structures, with reminders that publishers provide a lot more than the paper upon which books are printed. At the 15-minute mark is an interview with David Kent, who’s the President and CEO of Harper Collins Canada. He guesses…
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The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook
TeleRead has a great post on The ABCs of e-book format conversion: Easy Calibre tips for the Kindle, Sony and Nook. It’s written by one of the developers of Calibre, a program for managing ebook collections, and as such touts Calibre as pretty much the perfect tool for handling your conversion needs. What’s really nice…
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Have my book-buying habits changed?
Teleread has a great post in which the author reports on his/her experiences with the Sony PRS-505 ebook reader after one year of use. I particularly wanted to point out the section of the review entitled "Have my book-buying habits changed?" because it mirrors my experience reading and buying books for the iPhone. I used…