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Are Medical School Students Ready for E-Readers?

Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2013
College textbook publishers are planning to make college and professional education textbooks available online to be downloaded to personal communication devices (e.g., smartphones), digital audio players (e.g., iPods), and digital readers (e.g., Kindles).
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The E-Reader as Replacement for the Print Newspaper

Publishing Research Quarterly, 2011
This study examines the effects of a major metropolitan newspaper’s withdrawal from a city and whether an e-reader pre-loaded with a digital subscription to the newspaper would act as a replacement. In-depth interviews with 20 former readers of the newspaper found the device, the Kindle DX, to be generally liked for its readability but a poor ...
Barry A. Hollander, Dean M. Krugman, Tom Reichert, J. Adam Avant   +3 more
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E-Readers: New Opportunities for Hospital Patients and Staff

Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2012
E-readers provide an opportunity for hospital librarians to reach out to staff and patients with new approaches to library lending. Librarians in four Veterans Health Administration medical centers are using e-readers to enlarge their scope of service in unique ways. The libraries of VA hospitals in Minneapolis, Des Moines, Tampa, and Philadelphia have
Priscilla L, Stephenson, Teresa R, Coady, Janet M, Schneider, Dorothy P, Sinha   +3 more
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A chapter preloading mechanism for e-reader in mobile environment

Information Sciences, 2013
E-book is a fast growing service for mobile Internet. A user reads e-books through an e-reader that could be a dedicated reading device or a mobile application on the smartphones or the tablets. With content protection of Digital Right Management (DRM), e-books take longer chapter loading time due to necessary data decryption.
Chen-Yuan Chuang, Yi-Bing Lin, Zhihao Julie Ren   +2 more
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Curling Up with E-Readers

2010
Worldreader.org is using electronic reading devices to catalyze a new culture of global literacy.
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E-readers and adolescent engagement

2013
Introduction As the use of e-readers becomes commonplace and more affordable, they will make their way into the hands of students. This research provides information about how the devices might be used as a tool to improve adolescent students‘ reading engagement and also helps to identify the struggles and pitfalls educators may face in implementing ...
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The Tax Immunity of E-Readers in Brazil

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The paper explores the broadening of the tax immunity in article 150, incise VI, letter “d” of the brazilian Federal Constitution with a view to protect e-readers. Through study of the constitutional history of the norm, it elaborates a definition for tax immunity for the purpose of interpretation.
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Ecstatic for E‐Readers

The Reading Teacher, 2013
Karen Aitken, Beth Dewey
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Change Happens: Book Selling, Libraries, and E-Readers

Public Library Quarterly, 2011
As Ronald Reagan was fond of saying when one of his opponents chided him in political debates, “Now, there you go again!” Then he would point out that some criticism was excessively narrow or stere...
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Epigenetic reader SP140 loss of function drives Crohn’s disease due to uncontrolled macrophage topoisomerases

Cell, 2022
Julie Huang, Marie-Eve Rivard, Philippe Goyette   +2 more
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