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The New Kindle Lineup: What It Means to Educators
Time to Read Feature Just a quick update on the new lineup of Kindles announced earlier this month: as ever, the new Kindle models have one key audience in mind – the individual consumer. Backlight for...
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Why do teens prefers phones to Kindles as e-readers?
The recent Pew report on Young Americans’ Reading and Library Habits contains a number of great take-aways, including the news that young people frequent libraries at an unexpectedly high rate. But...
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The Growing World of Worldreader
Had an opportunity to catch up with David Risher, founder and head of Worldreader, the group that is transforming literacy around the world by sending Kindles loaded with books to the remotest reaches...
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The Growing World of Worldreader, Part 2
As a follow up to our chat a few weeks back, Worldreader CEO David Risher was kind enough to answer a few more questions for me. First, I wondered how the money from the Bezos grant would be used? Our...
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Big Library Read Program Makes Unlimited Copies of Kids Book Available for...
Overdrive is using its position as “middleman” between the publishers and the libraries in a way that truly benefits readers. It’s “Big Library Read” program makes unlimited copies of a book it...
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Reading Retrofit: A Tool Called Spritz
From the beginning, EduKindle has really been about the meetup between digital technology and reading. Not so much the impact of technology on the publication of text, although that has a long, long...
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Do kids learn more from print texts than from digital ones?
The answer may surprise you.By: Tim Pierce The debate over whether physical or digital reading is better for kids is warming up. We are long past the days when the claims for print books were primarily...
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Is the Kindle or Kindle Fire the Best Device for Schools?
Related content: How to Clean Up Your Kindle Fire As with everything, the answer to this question comes from the answer to another question, which is “What is your goal for the use of the devices?” The...
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What’s wrong with Clean Reader? Maybe nothing…
When I asked educators about the usefulness of Clean Reader, the responses were definitive. Teachers don’t like it. It smacks of censorship. It dilutes the purpose of art, or worse–it bastardizes it in...
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Is Your Clipping Limit Exceeded?
Maybe the clipping limit isn't such a bad thingClipping limit? An oxymoron? Those of us who love to mark up our books sometimes go overboard. I remember packing some of my old college textbooks and...
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