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App Review: Wunderlist for task management

Juli Monroe — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:53 +0000

As soon as I published the post about Astrid being bought by Yahoo and mentioned I was looking for a new app, my in-box started chiming with suggestions. Wunderlist was one of the more interesting ones, and I’ve been checking it out this week. It has some interesting features that make it worth downloading. It’s usable across multiple devices. [...]

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Review: “Let’s Get Visible: How to Get Noticed and Sell More Books” by David Gaughran

Paul St John Mackintosh — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:00:43 +0000

This book had me diving into my current e-book projects within the first few minutes of opening the review copy, looking at how to improve the preview, feedback hooks, tagging, category choice, etc. And by the end, I had a whole checklist of sites to visit, tweaks to make, programs to sign up for. That’s [...]

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Kobo Aura HD: First Impressions

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:15:42 +0000

Spotted my first Kobo Aura HD this weekend! My local Indigo had added the new 30-percent larger 6.8 inch reader to its in-store display, and I got to play with one for a few minutes. And my first impression? It was fine. That’s it. That’s all I can really say about it. It’s bigger and [...]

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App Review: Astrid Tasks for iOS and Android

Juli Monroe — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:15:49 +0000

As you’ve probably guessed from previous posts, I’m a big fan of Pocket Informant for task and calendar management. But sometimes an app like Informant is just too much. Or perhaps you want to keep track of certain tasks separately. I’ve found Astrid Tasks to be a good option for those times. It has many features of a full-function [...]

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The Ultimate Evernote Guide, Part 2: Notebooks and Tags

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:15:13 +0000

The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Welcome to Part 2 of our Evernote series! In this lesson, we’ll be exploring notebooks and tags, and we’ll make a second notebook to show you how you can begin organizing and sorting the different content you put into this [...]

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Foli Aims to Get Rid of Months-Old Magazines in Waiting Rooms {Review}

Juli Monroe — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:30:34 +0000

I’m sure you’ve experienced this. You go to the doctor or dentist, and you’re informed that “someone will be with you in a minute.” Yeah, right. Knowing you’ll really have a lengthy wait, you try to find a magazine to read. Hmm. People from three months ago. Time from one month ago. Conde Nast Traveler‘s fall edition. Why aren’t there [...]

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The Ultimate Evernote Guide, Part 1: Getting Started with Evernote

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:15:38 +0000

The Ultimate Evernote Guide: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Welcome to TeleRead’s newest how-to series! We’ll be exploring a wonderful tool called Evernote, and its many uses for readers who want to organize and synthesize books, articles, quotes, websites, ideas and other information. I’ve written before about my recent Evernote love, [...]

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App Review: Poems by Heart, a Penguin Classics app

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:19 +0000

Poems by Heart is a new app from Penguin Classics designed to help readers memorize great poems. It’s a clever concept. You can browse the available poems and read them—or have them read to you with narration. And when you’re ready to learn the poem, a fill-in-the-blanks game that gets progressively more difficult helps you [...]

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A few years ago, these apps would have been books

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:24:27 +0000

People tend to be a little too excited about the multimedia e-book ‘experience’ these days. In the vast majority of cases, most books would be better off staying as books; the quest for multimedia add-ones leads to cost, bloat and complexity. But sometimes it doesn’t. And that realization has been a surprise to me. I [...]

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How I nearly became a sock puppet

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:09:22 +0000

I always keep an eye out for freelance work. I enjoy writing, and sometimes I like to get paid extra for it. I recently saw an ad on Craigslist for a book reviewer. It wasn’t a lot of money, but it was better than nothing for something I enjoy doing anyway. I like reading, and [...]

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App Review: Nota

Susan Lulgjuraj — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:00:13 +0000

With tablets becoming part of the classroom, new apps regularly arrive on the market to aid educators. One of the newest releases for Android devices is Nota, an app that allows users to add videos, links and images to the pages of textbooks. Nota could aid a wide range of people, providing a comprehensive way [...]

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Bookish Now Has E-Reading Apps. Hooray?

Juli Monroe — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:30:37 +0000

Earlier this month, I wrote about the launch of Bookish. At the time, their e-reading apps were “coming soon.” And now they are here. Are we impressed? Not really. It’s a bare bones e-reading app with nothing to recommend it. The Android version isn’t bad. You can override publisher defaults to get some font and [...]

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Proporta Beachbuoy Waterproof Nexus 7 Case (Review)

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:00:59 +0000

The Proporta Beachbuoy Waterproof Nexus 7 Case was sent to me for review by the kind folks at Mobile Fun. They offered me my choice of Nexus or iPad Mini cases, and given that I stole the Beloved’s book-style for my own purposes, I let him pick. He choose this waterproof case because he’s fond [...]

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Review: MoKo Case for Nexus 7 Tablet

Juli Monroe — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:26:06 +0000

On Saturday, I bought a shiny new Nexus 7, which I already love. After the obligatory new app download frenzy, I switched my attention to selecting a case. After a happy half hour or so of browsing Amazon, I found one I liked. I used a similar selection process to the one I wrote about [...]

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REVIEW: iPad Mini

Joanna Cabot — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:30:15 +0000

I posted earlier this year about my first impressions of the iPad Mini, and since then, I’ve remained on the fence about whether or not I would get one. I use my devices so much, and I really welcomed something smaller and lighter and nimbler. On the other hand, the price point horrified me a little, [...]

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