TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Jon Jermey http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 An Appeal to Tablet and E-Reader Manufacturers: Standardize your power cords, already! http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/an-appeal-to-tablet-and-e-reader-manufacturers-standardise-your-power-supplies-already/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/an-appeal-to-tablet-and-e-reader-manufacturers-standardise-your-power-supplies-already/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:00:21 +0000 Jon Jermey http://www.teleread.com/?p=76895 Some things I collect avidly and with great pleasure, like detective stories. Others I accumulate reluctantly and with increasing distaste, like power supplies. As with most twenty-first century households, we have an ever-growing collection of power supplies for various devices which have broken, been stolen or simply retired from old age. ‘I’ll keep the power [...]

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