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Assessing User Preferences for E-Readers and Tablets
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2013Librarians purchased 12 e-readers and six tablets to provide patrons the opportunity to experiment with the latest mobile technologies. After several train-the-trainer sessions, librarians shared device information with the broader health sciences community. Devices were cataloged and made available for a two-week checkout.
Jeanne M, Le Ber +4 more
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E‐readers in an academic library setting
Library Hi Tech, 2011PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show how e‐book readers are used in an academic library setting.Design/methodology/approachThe approach takes the form of a literature review and e‐mail survey to academic library administrators.FindingsAlthough the survey sample responding was not large, it was felt that it represented a microcosm of intelligent ...
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2004
This chapter introduces a number of terms and phrases that you may not be familiar with. These terms are listed in the accompanying Handbook with enough space to define them in your own words or note examples, references, and resources.
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This chapter introduces a number of terms and phrases that you may not be familiar with. These terms are listed in the accompanying Handbook with enough space to define them in your own words or note examples, references, and resources.
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Information Display, 2010
E‐readers are not yet commodity items, although they are selling briskly. This year's unit sales are predicted to be twice those of last year. And, in many ways, e‐book technology is still in its early stages. E‐book file compatibility is still being sorted out, and future versions of e‐readers will offer many features not widely seen today, including ...
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E‐readers are not yet commodity items, although they are selling briskly. This year's unit sales are predicted to be twice those of last year. And, in many ways, e‐book technology is still in its early stages. E‐book file compatibility is still being sorted out, and future versions of e‐readers will offer many features not widely seen today, including ...
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Logos, 2010
Digital technology changes our world and reshapes the scientific, social, political, cultural, commercial—and romantic—relationships between people. A short love letter written on birchbark (a not uncommon carrier of communication in mediaeval Russia (http://gramoty.ru/) is intentionally not very much different in content than a modern text message ...
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Digital technology changes our world and reshapes the scientific, social, political, cultural, commercial—and romantic—relationships between people. A short love letter written on birchbark (a not uncommon carrier of communication in mediaeval Russia (http://gramoty.ru/) is intentionally not very much different in content than a modern text message ...
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2011
2011 has seen many e-readers arrive on store shelves; a new generation of “touch screen” devices including the Nook Simple Touch, Kobo eReader Touch, and i-River Story HD. They all have a capability of loading user created content, so the question arises; how well can they support my legacy documents? The answer might be surprisingly well.
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2011 has seen many e-readers arrive on store shelves; a new generation of “touch screen” devices including the Nook Simple Touch, Kobo eReader Touch, and i-River Story HD. They all have a capability of loading user created content, so the question arises; how well can they support my legacy documents? The answer might be surprisingly well.
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Are Medical School Students Ready for E-Readers?
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2013College 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, 2011This 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 +3 more
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E-Readers: New Opportunities for Hospital Patients and Staff
Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 2012E-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 +3 more
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A chapter preloading mechanism for e-reader in mobile environment
Information Sciences, 2013E-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 +2 more
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