I wrote hundreds of posts for Teleread this year; to wrap up my Year in Review, here are some of my favourites! A few of these got tons of comments and prompted some great discussions. Others slipped under the radar and may be worth a second look. I hope this gives you some good holiday reading!
January
My Goodreads Wishlist for 2014
The Lost Art of Letter Writing
Why is the Kobo App Still So Annoying?
The Health Hazards of Wearable Technology
Reading Routines: What’s Yours?
Love the Work, Hate the Artist
February
Let’s Stop Feeding the Tired Publishing Tropes
Should JK Rowling Stop Writing?
March
Specialty Programming: Good News for TV, Bad News for Books
Test Run: iPad Mini vs iPad Air
Jillian Michaels on the Death of Paid-For Media
Dealing with the Coming Onslaught of Used Media
Amazon Not the Only Reason for Bookstore Closures
April
Review: Reading A-Z.com
A Case Study in the Difficulties of the Permission Culture
Why Does Amazon Still Use the Topaz Format?
May
Are Best-Sellers Bad for You?
Kindle Paperwhite In-Depth
The Debate Over Trigger Warnings in Literature Classes
You Are Not a Digital Native
June
High School Reading 2.0
Are Books Substitutable?
July
How the Public Library Looks These Days
Big Phone, or Small Tablet? The Next Tech Shift
Books You Know You’re Never Going to Read
People Prefer Electric Shocks to Being Alone with their Thoughts
Why Subscription Services Will be the Way of the Future
August
My New Digital-Age Mantra: Everything is Improvable
What Features do the eInk Kindles Still Need?
Why Aren’t More Teachers Using Technology in Education?
Is Humans of New York Real Journalism?
September
Are Books Really Like Any Other Consumer Good?
Reflections on the First Week of School
A Strange Little Copyright Story
October
Empowerment for the Digital Age?
Story Time vs Tablet Time: The Kids eBook Debate
Five Fun Ways to Use Calibre’s Custom Fields
Trend Watch: On-line Blogs of Analog Journals
November
How Big Media Helped Break the Jian Ghomeshi Story
Cash for Reviews: A Slippery Slope
Notes on iPhone/iPad
Library Book Sales: A Lesson in Critical Reading
December
My eBook Predictions for 2015
Star Trek & Literature, Part 2