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Not iBooks. eBooks!

February 2, 2010

eBooks are going to be big­ger than ever in the com­ing months, espe­cially since Apple’s recently announced its iBooks ebook store. It’s pure spec­u­la­tion on my part, but I’m think­ing that in the com­ing months with the launch of the iPad, iBooks will also be avail­able for the iPhone and iPod touch… …more

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The Tablet Cometh: Some thoughts on Apple’s announcement

January 22, 2010
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Next Wed­nes­day, Apple will host one of the most anti­cip­ated tech­no­logy announce­ments of the year, per­haps of this still-fresh dec­ade.
The reason for this level of atten­tion is that every­one anti­cip­ates that Apple will re-launch a device that the industry has been try­ing to make work for 20 years — the Tab­let com­puter.
As some pun­dits predict, […]

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How to easily convert almost any eBook to open ePub format

January 18, 2010
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My iPod Touch is also my eBook reader. I use the Stanza app (recently upgraded), and the Stanza desktop applic­a­tion to get pdf and other formats into my iPod Touch. But Stanza can’t read all formats, and occa­sion­ally an impor­ted file will not dis­play cor­rectly — the lay­out gets messed up.
This is where 2epub.com comes […]

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The keys to the library

January 11, 2010

Given all the hype eBook read­ers are get­ting these days, espe­cially dur­ing and after CES, I thought I’d explore which was more valu­able, the data object, or the data. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

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Why I’m not recommending an eBook reader this Christmas

November 30, 2009
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This hol­i­day sea­son it seems that the eBook reader is the must-have tech gift.
I can understand why:

Port­able — it’s easier to carry one eReader loaded with a few hun­dred (or thou­sand!) books
Search­able — some of the eRead­ers can  scan and search for text pas­sages, let­ting you book­mark them for future ref­er­ence
Annota­tions — in addition […]

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How to view PDF and other files on your iPhone and iPod Touch

April 26, 2009
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I have to read a lot of fic­tion in the next few months. A lot of Sci­ence Fic­tion to be pre­cice, and it’s so I can cast an informed bal­lot to help select the best of the genre at this year’s World Sci­ence Fic­tion con­ven­tion (World­Con).
As a mem­ber of World­Con, a packet con­tain­ing this year’s […]

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