Bookshare has developed two new digital products to help those with disabilities. Bookshare’s Web Reader and Bookshelf were announced at the Assistive Technology Industry Association conference, held January 30 through February 2 in Orlando, Fla. The products were created to help those with impairments such as learning disabilities, physical disabilities or low vision. The Web Reader will allow Bookshare members to open books, including NIMAC textbooks, in a browser without the need of any downloads or separate software. The Web Reader is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 9 and above. Web Reader allows individuals to adjust font size, colors and display format....

The great thing about an e-book reader is the way it allows you to have access to dozens of books on your device, each one staying open to exactly where you left it when you go back to it. You may not even think about how much of a benefit this is until you consider the mechanisms devised in the 16th century to try to provide the same access to physical books. The “There, I Fixed It” section of Failblog covers the 16th-century “bookwheel” revolving bookstand, intended to allow researchers to cross-reference between multiple volumes with as much ease...

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Since posting my review of Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series, I have been moved to go back and reread the entire thing, including the latest book that was released only recently. And a couple months ago I had purchased a $20 Groupon to Barnes & Noble, which was only good through April. So it seemed like a reasonable excuse to snag the e-books and do some reading—especially since the books were so reasonably priced. Which, in turn, was a good excuse to get around to reviewing the new Nook e-reader for the iPad, iPhone, and Windows Desktop and see...

The last few e-readers I’ve reviewed have been corporate-, or at least company-created—crafted by teams of developers, with a very smooth and polished look to them and, with the exception of eReader, all relative latecomers to the iPhone platform. It’s time to switch things up and take a look at a much older, largely solo effort: Zachary Bedell’s iPhone/iPad universal application BookShelf (v2.3.2968). If any app could be called the original iPhone e-book reader, BookShelf certainly qualifies. A predecessor, Books 1.0 (not written by Bedell), actually pre-dates Apple’s first iPhone software development kit—it was in one of the unofficial...

Related: Chris Meadows’ unboxing video of the iPad. In-depth review on the way! – D.R. Apple, Kobo and Amazon dissed iPad fans who prefer e-reader apps to be able to bold all the text on the screen---one way to increase LCD readability when you’re outside or if you suffer vision problems. Stanza, yes, offers the Arial Rounded MT Bold font, but without a so-far-AWOL update, it won’t display full size in high-res on the iPad screen. readMe keeps crashing. But good old BookShelf, one of the early iPhone apps, is out with an iPad-friendly version that offers...

In comments on a post relating to the announcement that iBooks on the iPad would be able to sync “free” EPUB books through iTunes, a reader expressed skepticism that users would be able to download them without iTunes. Hey iPhone/iPod Touch users: What can you download directly and use without using itunes on a separate computer? Can you download a file to the iPhone/iPod Touch via the web then open that file? If I want to read a Baen epub why do I need to go through iTunes? In fact,...