Archive for the ‘Color’ Category
Friday, July 10th, 2009
An earlier article, Color Pictures in Google Books, discussed a few examples of color pictures in full-view books in GBS. Below are more examples in the areas of botany, medical botany, and dermatology.
Google Books titles with color pictures - Botany, Medical Botany
[Examples below link to screenshots in Flickr of Overview ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
A recent Wired article (Why E-Books Are Stuck in a Black-and-White World) has a good chart comparing four leading E-reader displays (E-Ink, Kent Displays, Pixel Qi, and Qualcomm). The chart appears far down in the article, though, and I suspect it was missed by many readers, so to make it ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
A notable feature of the KIndle iPhone app that was announced today is that it has color, unlike Amazon's Kindle device. The most complete comments I've found on this are at CNET.com, written by Nicole Lee (whose interest in comic books gives her good reason to look for color!) Her ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Mike Cane hits the target on color eBooks ...
Truly, the first device that can do color eBooks will change things forever ... There are three recent signs — as well as a total wild card — that point to possible dramatic changes in the eBook-reading hardware landscape. ...
... The first ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Kalev Leetaru (Univ Illinois) recently published a lengthy and interesting article comparing Google Books and the Open Content Alliance. It's especially interesting because it brings together a good description of many nitty-gritty details of Google Books that are not easy to track down. I'm excerpting a few passages on the ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Color pictures in full-view books in Google Books are generally not common. This is not surprising, since color pictures in books generally before the pre-copyright date (1923) were uncommon. Searches in Google Books for likely subjects -- museum, sculpture, french painting, history -- do find many books with pictures, but ...
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