Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
A little-discussed but valuable part of Google Books is the About this book page. This is sort of like an enhanced card catalog view of the book -- In addition to standard bibliographic data, it also has a variety of other useful information. For books with pictures an especially valuable ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
I Just came across an old but still current article by Roy Tennant -- Digital Libraries- The Other E-Books -- written in 2001. Tennant says:
When People refer to e-books, they typically mean device-dependent e-books (ER: bold added, see below) such as those marketed by Gemstar (ER: a long-gone pre-Kindle reader) ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
What are eBooks? WikiPedia says an eBook is "the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book ... usually read on a PC or ... an e-book reader."
This sounds like what Peter Brantley calls "the older model" of eBooks that are "downloadable and packaged ... into dedicated readers." The newer ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
In the last year, we've begun to include the copyright status of pictures on Hardin MD pages. We have especially done this to show which pictures are not under copyright and are therefore free to copy.
Recently Peter Brantley suggested that libraries should make it easy for users to find public ...
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