TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » mobileread http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 18:12:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 My DRM-Free Year, Month 3: Read an E-Book Week http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-3-read-an-e-book-week/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-3-read-an-e-book-week/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:02:22 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=82167 For this third month of my DRM-free year, the big event was Read an E-Book Week. I have to admit, I was a little disappointed with the offerings. Most authors seemed to simply re-list whatever they had last year—some of these books didn’t interest me then or now, and others I had already explored. A [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-3-read-an-e-book-week/feed/ 0 New OverDrive Site Not Meeting User Expectations? http://www.teleread.com/library/new-overdrive-site-not-meeting-user-expectations/ http://www.teleread.com/library/new-overdrive-site-not-meeting-user-expectations/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:49:43 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=77774 Late last year, OverDrive began rolling out a new look to their site. My own library in Fairfax County had a “New Look Coming” banner up for several weeks. When I tried it out for the first time, my reaction was, “Not great, but I can live with it.” I wasn’t crazy about the new [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/new-overdrive-site-not-meeting-user-expectations/feed/ 5 Kindle source code points to Prime e-book loan program http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kindle-source-code-points-to-prime-e-book-loan-program/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kindle-source-code-points-to-prime-e-book-loan-program/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:59:15 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kindle-source-code-points-to-prime-e-book-loan-program/ The eBook Reader blog reports on a discovery in a MobileRead forum thread of a variable in some Amazon source code pointing to something called “Prime eBooks”. There is a variable in the code named PRIME_EBOOKS_COMPATIBLE, and a “prime_active_delete” command that asks readers if they’re sure they want to delete and return a library loan. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/kindle-source-code-points-to-prime-e-book-loan-program/feed/ 1 Project Gutenberg turns its attention to cell phone reading http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/project-gutenberg-turns-its-attention-to-cell-phone-reading/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/project-gutenberg-turns-its-attention-to-cell-phone-reading/#comments Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:17:05 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/25/project-gutenberg-turns-its-attention-to-cell-phone-reading/ A MobileRead forumgoer reports that the latest Project Gutenberg newsletter contains an announcement of a new Project Gutenberg mobile website, m.gutenberg.org. The site is to be optimized not just for iPhones, but for any mobile phone including browsing-enabled dumbphones. Writes Gutenberg: There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus only 1.15 billion computers, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/project-gutenberg-turns-its-attention-to-cell-phone-reading/feed/ 1 Quick Notes: Twitter leads, Kindle news, true ‘e-paper’, and more http://www.teleread.com/library/quick-notes-twitter-leads-kindle-news-true-e-paper-and-more/ http://www.teleread.com/library/quick-notes-twitter-leads-kindle-news-true-e-paper-and-more/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 12:58:51 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/2010/05/24/quick-notes-twitter-leads-kindle-news-true-e-paper-and-more/ MediaBistro’s eBookNewser and GalleyCat have been putting together a directory of good Twitter accounts to follow for e-book news. Gratifyingly, our very own Paul Biba tops their list. Thanks for the mention, MediaBistro! Engadget reports that Amazon and ASUS are teaming up to pre-install the Kindle Reader software on some of the netbooks and laptops [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/quick-notes-twitter-leads-kindle-news-true-e-paper-and-more/feed/ 1 Next major EPUB revision under discussion on Mobileread http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/next-major-epub-revision-under-discussion-on-mobileread/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/next-major-epub-revision-under-discussion-on-mobileread/#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:59:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.org/2010/04/09/next-major-epub-revision-under-discussion-on-mobileread/ Nate the Great posts over on the Mobileread forum that the EPUB Maintenance Working Group is in the process of minor revisions of EPUB from v2.0 to v2.0.1, while identifying problems to tackle in the next major revision. Two weeks have been set aside for public comment, of which three days have passed so far. [...]

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