Make Your Own Comic

Stephen Abram from SirsiDynix and Stephen's Lighthouse has created his own comic strip using toonlet. This is so cool! Anyone with a bit of spare time and stories to tell (personal, work, or school related) could have a lot of fun with this.

Read an E-Book Week, March 9-15

Whether you are into green or black & white, March 9 - 15 has been "set aside to educate consumers about reading electronic books and other reading material." For more...

Ebooks on iPhone and iPod Touch

Although you need to have an active web connection, "With TextOnPhone, iPhone and iPod touch users can view electronic books (ebooks), text files, and documents on the go using an iPhone-friendly interface when browsing TextOnPhone.com." For more...

50 Free Applications

The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives includes substitute applications for operating systems, office tools, graphics, media, and more.

Kindle Selling Sample Chapters

News from Kindleville - Stephen Windwalker is selling an excerpt of his forthcoming book: How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email and Other Cool Tricks.  The exerpt is available as a Kindle download - quelle surprise!

Top Tools 2008

List of Top 100 Tools for Learning - Spring 2008 may not contain any surprises, but it is still early in the year.

Top 100 Tools for 2007 by Popularity

Kindle can't be lent?

OK, people who know me sometimes say I can sound a little paranoid about the differences in copyright law between print and electronic materials. Electronic items, thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, can come with extremely restrictive license agreements that deny the so-called "first-sale" doctrine libraries rely on to lend materials.
Here's a link to a story in Library Journal about a concrete example, though: http://tinyurl.com/24m5xa.
According to the story, the license agreement specifically prohibits the Kindle from being lent out. This could be a sticking point as libraries attempt to more fully embrace digital materials.

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