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A national digital library endowment: How America’s billionaires could be modern Carnegies for real
Update: James Fallows’s blog on The Atlantic’s site reproduced part of this proposal, and the long version appeared in Sabrina Pacifici’s award-winning LLRX library journal. More details and an FAQ on the proposal are here. Warren Buffett was on CBS Sunday Morning. The interviewer, Rebecca Jarvis, asked if he owned an iPad. No. iPhone. No. [...]
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On e-books, better speech recognition, tablets, and libraries
Could stellar recognition of speech be The Next Big Thing for tablets and smartphones fit for e-books—well at least eventually? Imagine the possibilities. And I don’t just mean e-book apps set up for “Next page” or “Go to end of chapter” or “Find such-and-such word.” Nor do I simply have in mind the composition of [...]
Why new Apple e-book format will ‘screw’ America’s libraries: Any chance the DPLA will wake up?
Earlier I warned that the new Apple e-book format would jack up costs—it isn’t true ePub. And libraries are among the victims. Now Peter Brantley at the Internet Archive has a first-rate post, at PWxyz, on some specific outrages of iBooks Author, and he himself uses the word “screw” (not the first time circumstances have [...]
Apple e-textbook tools to jack up education and hardware costs ultimately? And could the DPLA help offer an alternative?
Tweaked. See update at the end. While the Digital Public Library of America has been fixated on arcane library-and-museum concerns, Apple is unveiling an e-book creation tool that might lock in some teachers and students. Very possibly the new multimedia tool may ultimately jack up costs somewhat in K-12 and elsewhere. This could happen via [...]
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On gadgets and gumption and a Forbes blogger’s myopia: You can’t just Google your way out of poverty. Lesson for the DPLA here?
Can you really Google your way out of poverty—no small issue when 146 million Americans are poor or at least in the “low income” category? The Digital Public Library of America isn’t saying that, but so far, the DPLA has shown more interest in upper-level academic needs, such as better-than-Google reference tools, than in libraries [...]
The nuts and bolts of using tablet computers, e-libraries, and family literacy initiatives to encourage young children to read
My sister the retired schoolteacher came to e-books only late in life, but you’d never know it from her enthusiasm for her iPad as a reading tool. Dorothy can blow up the type, for example. She actually reads faster than before, and, in fact, she hopes to use e-books to help spur her grandchildren to [...]
Tablets for Toddlers and Families proposal: The frugality angle
Free iPads or other tablets for low-income families with young kids? Not just for reading to toddlers but also for delivery of content and services in areas ranging from childcare advice to nutrition? My further thoughts, especially on the tablets as family literacy promoters, are on the way. What kind of reading software might be [...]