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E-Books and E-Book Apps: Considerations for Beginning Readers
The Reading Teacher, 2016This article highlights considerations for teachers when selecting and using e-books and e-book applications (apps) with beginning readers during guided and independent reading. A framework for examining e-books and e-book apps is suggested, and several apps and related digital features are described. The article also includes an overview of children's
Celeste C. Bates +7 more
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2018
In Germany, currently about ten million e-book readers are in use. Dismantling trials were undertaken to assess the recycling potential of these devices. Ten discarded e-book readers from five different manufacturers were acquired for manual dismantling, out of which nine were actually dismantled, whereas the tenth sample was reactivated by hard reset.
Ersin Karadeniz +2 more
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In Germany, currently about ten million e-book readers are in use. Dismantling trials were undertaken to assess the recycling potential of these devices. Ten discarded e-book readers from five different manufacturers were acquired for manual dismantling, out of which nine were actually dismantled, whereas the tenth sample was reactivated by hard reset.
Ersin Karadeniz +2 more
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Reading Chinese in e-Book Readers: A Review
2011In this paper, a comprehensive review of related studies concerning reading Chinese in eBook readers is presented. This review aims at finding out related factors influencing the reading performance on eBook readers, especially for Chinese readers. The result of this paper could be useful for designing appropriate eBook readers to Chinese customers.
Liang Ma 0001, Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
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E‐book readers and college students
New Library World, 2010PurposeThere is evidence that the percentage of students in the higher education environment in the USA who will be using technology everyday in 2010 could reach nearly 100 percent. With such a possibility looming, will the plethora of e‐book readers or hand‐held multi‐functional devices designed to download and read e‐books change the reading habits ...
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Book-Like Reader: Mirroring Book Design and Navigation in an E-Book Reader
2016This paper describes our design of the Book-Like Reader, an e-book reader interface that mirrors paper books. This study focuses on the characteristics of flexibility and lightweight navigation in paper books. We consider the important requirements for navigation to be the control method, the behavior of paper pages, and lightweight bookmarking.
Yuto Kotajima, Jiro Tanaka
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Facilitating high school campus learning with e-book readers
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, 2010In this paper, we exploit the potential of employing e-book reading devices in facilitating learning in a high school campus. We have custom-designed the user interface as well as the textbook content to suit the needs of this particular user group.
Wen-Hung Liao, Chien-Pao Chueh
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Design and public policy considerations for accessible e-book readers
Interactions, 2011Public policy increasingly plays a role in influencing the work that we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. "Public policy" is a broad term that includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations, such as standards bodies.
Chris Danielsen +2 more
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Towards a faithful visualization of historical books on e-book readers
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing, 2011The faithful visualization of historical documents on e-book devices and tablet computers is addressed in this paper. To this purpose, digitized books should be converted to re-flowable formats where the characters are easily re-sized. This is accomplished by first analyzing the document to extract the characters that are then clustered and replaced by
MARINAI, SIMONE +2 more
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E-books and the Use of E-book Readers in Academic Libraries: Results of an Online Survey
Georgia Library Quarterly, 2012To ascertain the use of e-books and e-book readers in academic libraries, a study was conducted by Judith Brook of Mercer University and Anne A. Salter of Oglethorpe University. The study was conducted during the period March through May of 2010. The target audience for the web based Survey Monkey study consisted of library professionals, rare book and
Judith Brook, Anne A. Salter
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PREDICTING READER ABSORPTION IN ENHANCED E-BOOKS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
EDULEARN ProceedingsAbstract: In the digital age, children’s and adolescents’ willingness to engage in reading for pleasure seems to be on the decline, and has been linked to a potential impact of digitization on deep and/or absorbed reading - characterized by sustained attention to and open reflection on the story world.
Vanhees, Claudio +2 more
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