Thirty-five tech terms, and how they came and went over the past few decades.
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5 Unique Photo Books You Can Create Online
If you want something unique, something that’s more than just another book of photos, you have to dig a little deeper.
Reinventing the Book for the Digital Age
Good books allow the imagination to powerfully experience a story. Books in the digital age have an opportunity to capitalize on these experiences.
Everything You Needed to Know About the Internet in May 1994
A snapshot of a revolution, just before it really took off.
Review: Sparkup Magical Book Reader Lets You Record Books in Your Own Voice
The Sparkup Magical Book Reader lets you record books in your own voice or download pre-recorded books for your kids to play back.
Oyster Is a Netflix-like Service for Books
For $9.95 a month – less than what you’d pay for the average e-book – you get access to Oyster’s library of over 100,000 titles.
Amazon Rolls Out Kindle MatchBook: Buy a Paper Book, Get the Kindle Version Cheap or Free
Buy a paper book from Amazon, and you can have the Kindle version for $3, $2, $1 or free, depending on the title.
Choose Your Own Adventure Books Look to Be Resurrected in Tablet Form
You know you turned back to the previous page when you died instead of starting over. We’re all adults now; let’s be honest about it.
How One Local Bookstore Is Dealing with the E-Book Revolution
A San Francisco institution tries its hand at selling e-readers.
The Future of Libraries: Short on Books, Long on Tech
This isn’t your childhood library.
You Can’t Do That with a Kindle: Library Builds Record-Breaking Domino Chain from Old Books
To promote its summer reading program, the Seattle Public Library did what any enterprising library would do: take a bunch of old books, set them up like dominoes and knock them over.
How Libraries Are Reinventing Themselves for the Future
Many branches of these public institutions are dying from lack of funding—and reinventing themselves in surprising new ways.