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Daily Links and Deals: Honoring my daughter’s ‘last’ request in the age of digital media

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Friday, February 26, 2016:

Just Announced: The Rosa Parks Collection Digitized and Now Available Online (Infodocket) – The Library of Congress collection showcases 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs from this collection honoring the Civil Rights pioneer.

Disney CEO asks employees to chip in to pay copyright lobbyists (Ars Technica) – I think I have no nice words to say here….

Microsoft’s plan to port Android apps to Windows is dead (The Verge) – Project Astoria is officially dead.

Adblock Plus opens up about how ‘acceptable ads’ work (The Guardian)  – And just exactly how is any of this in the reader’s interest. Sounds anything but….

Honoring my daughter’s ‘last’ request in the age of digital media (Washington Post) – Incredibly poignant piece on the role of digital in our lives

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks by Tracey Goessel for $2.99.

As part of Today’s Deals, Amazon is featuring a sale on Kindle Accessories at 30% off. Items include covers, chargers and device cables. 🙂

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is your choice of three classic works from  Amiri Baraka (aka LeRoi Jones) for just $1.99 each. The Romance Daily Find is The Letters (Inn at Eagle Hill Series #1) by Suzanne Woods Fisher for $1.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Mist of Midnight by Sandra Byrd for $2.99.

The Kobo store is also having a 30% Off Sale through February 29 is you use coupon code 30FEB .

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Mrs. John Doe by Tom Savage  for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Tablets Are Dead

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Thursday, February 25, 2016:

President Obama Will Nominate Dr. Carla Hayden as Next Librarian of Congress (Infodocket)

Google wants us to change our name from 9to5Google (Update: We’re back!) (9 to 5 Google) –  Running afoul of trademark law: the fallout…. Anybody remember when Amazon made everybody take the work Kindle out of their domain names?  Yeah, it’s like that.

The why’s and what’s of 5G (USA Today) – This is where wireless networks are going – and why it’s a good idea.

Tablets Are Dead (Techcrunch) – Not a single new tablet revealed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

The Open eBooks Program Brings eBooks to Students Who Need it Most (The Digital Reader) – Ebooks going where they are desperately needed, but could the government manage the program for less?

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes The Dead Play On (Cafferty & Quinn Novels Book 3) by Heather Graham for 99 cents.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is  A Night In With Audrey Hepburn by Lucy Holliday for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Safe at Last (Slow Burn Series #3) by Maya Banks for $1.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig for $2.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes The Kill Box by Nicole Christoff for 99 cents.

Google is offering a selection of Limited Time Deals that includes Mockingbird (Sequel to Blackbirds) by Chuck Wendig for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Use a wireless mouse? This $15 hack could compromise your laptop

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Wednesday, February 23, 2016:

Plagiarism Comes to a Tech Blog… (Plagiarism Today) – Disturbing. Especially when it is a blog you read every day and depend on for industry news in your field.

American Sniper is the next Big Library Read (Overdrive) – Unlimited copies, coming to libraries that use Overdrive.

Facebook extends the Like button to offer five new ways to respond to a post (9 to 5 Google) –  You get 5 more responses, but dislike isn’t one of them.

Inside Axel Springer’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles (Digiday) – And here I am, still trying to get Flipboard off my phone….

Use a wireless mouse? This $15 hack could compromise your laptop (CNET) – Now we have to worry about mousejacking, too!

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Immortal Guardians (Spirit Animals: Fall of the Beasts, Book 1) by Eliot Schrefer for $2.99. The panda on the cover is cute!

Also, in Today’s Deals, Amazon has a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 2-in-1 Convertible offered through Woot. The device has an 11.6-inch IPS Touchscreen Laptop(Tablet), Intel Quad Core Processor, 4GB DDR3L, 128GB SSD, HDMI, Bluetooth, Webcam, AC Wifi,  and Windows 10 Professional for $269.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma for $2.99. The Romance Daily Find is Captive by Brighton Walsh for $2.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Mariana by Susanna Kearsley for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes An Appetite for Murder (A Key West Food Critic Mystery)   by Lucy Burdette for $1.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: The Unruly Pleasures of the Mid-Manhattan Library

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Tuesday, February 23, 2016:

Smartphone Ownership and Internet Usage Continues to Climb in Emerging Economies (Pew Research Center) – Interesting distinction between mobile devices and smartphones.

Here’s what the ‘i’ in iPhone means (Mashable) – I always thought it was for interactive…. 🙂

UCLA Library releases audio of rare Harper Lee radio interview (UCLA) –  A rare 1964 interview from the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Remix OS enters beta, adds support for 32-bit processors, OTA updates, dual-booting, more (9 to 5 Google) –  Another OS designed to support older computers.

The Unruly Pleasures of the Mid-Manhattan Library (The New Yorker) – Delightfully ambient piece on New York Library branches.

And two stories from the NYT that showcase the digital divide: Bridging a Digital Divide That Keeps Schoolchildren Behind and Fighting Homelessness, One Smartphone at a Time.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Depraved Heart: A Scarpetta Novel (The Scarpetta Series Book 23) by Patricia Cornwell for $3.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Deadly Stakes (Ali Reynolds Series #8) by J. A. Jance for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Redemption Bay by RaeAnne Thayne for $1.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Dear John by Nicholas Sparks for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Fair Use Week 2016 is Now Underway

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Monday, February 22, 2016:

Google will start linking to Accelerated Mobile Pages on Feb 24, Buzzfeed, WSJ readying sites (9 to 5 Google) – Will faster pages make you want to use the mobile web more?

Fair Use Week 2016 is Now Underway (Infodocket) – Yes, an entire week of events dedicated to fair use.

How Germany’s Gruner + Jahr is winning the fight against ad blocking (Digiday) – Why is it always desktop content that get’s blocked?

The Ad Blocking Wars (NYT) – This is definitely heating up….

Eleven Wants to Bring Back Adverts in Books (The Digital Reader) – *Shudders* Let’s just not even go there….

Deals of the Day: 

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes The Beautiful Ashes (A Broken Destiny Novel Book 1) by Jeaniene Frost for 99 cents and The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by by Roger Stone and Mike Colapietro for $1.99.

Once again, Amazon is offering the Fire HD 8 in an unannounced sale. You can get the 8GB version for $79.99 or the 16GB version for $99.99. This is been offered several times this week for only a few hours at a time, so I recommend getting it now if interested.  The 7′ Fire Kids Edition is also only $99.99 and you can $50 off if buy two with the code KIDS2PACK. You can see all the Fire tablets here.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Blood and Steel: Throne of the Caesars: Book II by Harry Sidebottom for $2.99. The Romance Daily Find is Accelerate: A Hotwired Novel by Tracy Wolff for $3.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Mangrove Island box set (books 1-3) by Neve Cottrell for $2.99.

Today is also the last day of Kobo’s Super Sale. You can get up to  70% off select titles hat are also eligible for Kobo’s Super Points program.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Why Zelda Was so Revolutionary When It Came Out 30 Years Ago Today

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Sunday, February 21, 2016:

13 Free Things on the Internet You Should Be Using (Time) – Free ebooks, audiobooks, courses, cloud storage and more.You probably know most of these, but it is a great list. 🙂

Reading sacred texts on screens, not paper: Does it matter? (Baptist News) –  This is an E versus P conversation that I don’t think I’ve ever heard discussed before….

Which VPN Services take your Anonymity Seriously? 2016 Edition (Torrent Freak) – Nice round up of the privacy practices of VPNs.

Endless Mini review: A low-cost desktop that’s useful even without the Internet (CNET) –  The usefulness of this device without the Internet is its real strength.

Why Zelda Was so Revolutionary When It Came Out 30 Years Ago Today (Motherboard) – Happy Birthday, Zelda!

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals includes Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva  by Rosemary Sullivan for $1.99.

Amazon also has the Fire HD 8 for only $99.99.  (This is an unannounced sale with no end date/time listed, so it may disappear quickly.)

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is The Girl in the Spider’s Web (Millennium Series #4) by David Lagercrantz, Stieg Larsson for $4.99. This is the controversial series sequel that triggered a Viking curse by Larrson’s longtime partner. The Romance Daily Find is Lovers and Liars: A Novel by Sally Beauman for $1.99.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes White Tiger: Dark Heavens Book One by Kylie Chan for 99 cents.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: The Coolest Place in Jerusalem? It’s the Library

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Saturday, February 18, 2016:

NLA Makes Digital History Today (National Library of Australia) The NLA now collects copies of ebooks and websites to preserve Australia’s cultural history.

Museums Push to Get ‘Dark Data’ Into Light Through Digitization (Voice of America) – How *do* you digitize a fossil?

Revamped Google Contributor now starts at $6.99 to see fewer ads on the web (9 to 5 Google) – Who does this really help websites? Read this before you answer….

Chicago library housing historic collection of black literature in jeopardy (CLTV) – This has been neglected for way too long.

The Coolest Place in Jerusalem? It’s the Library (Tablet Magazine) This sounds like a wonderful spot to visit. Amazing.

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deals include TO SPEAK FOR THE DEAD (Jake Lassiter Legal Thrillers Book 1) by Paul Levine for 99 cents.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is The Secret Laws of Attraction: The Effortless Way to Get the Relationship You Want  by Talane Miedaner for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is The Wedding Hoax by Heather Thurmeier 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Lover At Last, A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward for $1.99

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes City of Savages by Lee Kelly for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: Why Is the Post Office Still a Thing?

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Friday, February 19, 2016:

What Americans Used to Eat (Priceonomics) – Fascinating look at food, looking at meals drawn from the NYPL menu collection.

Facebook Plans To Put Ads In Messenger (Techcrunch) – Here we go….

Why Is the Post Office Still a Thing? (Motherboard) – An interesting look at a business/service we probably take for granted.

FCC ruling on TV set top boxes a major blow for cable companies, new opportunity for tech giants (Talking New Media) – Is this the fix that the industry needs?

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal includes Fern Michaels’ Desperate Measures for $1.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley for $1.99. The Romance Daily Find is Night Is Darkest (Men in Blue Series) by Jayne Rylon for 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Silent Assassin by Leo J. Maloney for $2.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes Everything is Illuminated by Johnathan Safran Foer for

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Extremely poor user experience. Unable to change font sizes to large fonts, poor page turn display, awful search function, inadequate sync across devices. Lack of closed captioning, resume play on movies, no Chromecast or Roku function. Audiobooks not accessible on apps and do not sync to where left off. The list goes on and on.This service is not ready for prime time.

Daily Links and Deals: Scribd waits until Valentine’s Day has passed, then breaks romance readers hearts

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Thursday, February 18, 2016:

Scribd waits until Valentine’s Day has passed, then breaks romance readers hearts (LA Times) – Interesting take on the Scribd situation.

Neverware turns your old PC or Mac into a Chromebook, adds dual-booting (9 to 5 Google) – So, who has an old netbook just waiting to be resurrected?

When phone verification and recycled numbers collide, Lyft leaks user data (Ars Technica) – Wasn’t the phone identification supposed to make things safer?

Appeals court says Apple’s settlement in e-book price-fixing case can stand (Ars Technica) –  No surprises here….

Why are some of the ugliest sites on the Web also the most popular? (The Next Web) –  A look at websites that look like they belong back in the 1990s and why they are so popular.

Hospital pays $17K ransom to get back access to encrypted files (Computer World) – In an update to this story from a few days ago, the hospital has paid up.

Flexible smartphones may be coming sooner than you think (Engadget) – Is five years soon enough?

The 227-Year-Old Statute Being Used to Order Apple to Endanger Your Privacy, Explained  (Gizmodo) – The irony of this is overwhelming….

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal includes Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances for $1.99.

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinsonfor $2.99. The Romance Daily Find is #scandal by Sarah Ockler for $1.99 (clever title!).

Kobo’s Daily Deal is Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel by Robert Crais for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan for $2.99.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.

Daily Links and Deals: $30 off Fire HD 6 and a 1Password family plan

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daily_links_1Daily Links for Wednesday, February 17, 2016:

Introducing 1Password for Families (Agilebits) – New package offers password protection for the entire family for one price.

American Airlines Sues Gogo Over Slow Inflight Wi-Fi (Techcrunch) – Yep, speed is really the big issue issue, even in the skies! And, because this is the way the stock market works,  Gogo stock drops 27 percent after being hit with lawsuit by American Airlines (Ars Technica).

After over two years, Google quietly ends the Google Play for Education program  (9 to 5 Google) – Give the rise of Chromebooks and the faltering of iPads in schools, this is no surprise.

Ransomware takes Hollywood hospital offline, $3.6M demanded by attackers (CSO Online) – Now they are hacking hospitals?

5 Amazon shipping tricks for people who can’t afford Prime (CNET) Interesting tips for frugal shoppers who don’t have Amazon Prime!

How to check if your family, friends are sharing your Netflix account (CNET) – I had no idea you could do this. I can see how this might be useful for certain people.

Uber Is Currently Fighting the Battle That Jitneys Lost 100 Years Ago (Gizmodo) -Interesting and very relevant!

Deals of the Day:

Amazon’s Kindle Daily Deal includes Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds by Carmine Gallo for $2.99.

In Today’s Deals, Amazon is offing $30 off the Fire HD 6. You can get the 8GB version for $69.99 and the 16GB for $89.99.  I have owned almost every version of the Fire tablet and this one is probably the one I use most. You can read my review of it here. Don’t forget a case. Cases like the MoKo  start at $9.99. 🙂

The Barnes and Noble Nook Daily Find is  Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves by Dave Lowry for $2.99. The Romance Daily Find is When An Alpha Purrs (A Lion’s Pride, #1) by Eve Langlais for 99 cents.

Kobo’s Daily Deal is The Next Always: Book One of the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy by Nora Roberts for $1.99.

iTunes’ Weekly Bestsellers Under $4 includes The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom for $1.99.

Google Play Books has a selection of Limited-Time Deals priced at 99 cents and up.

(A note on Daily Deals: All prices current at the time of posting and subject to change. Most items marked Daily Deals are good for only the day posted.

Many large promotions have discount pricing that is set by the publisher. This usually means that titles can be found at a discount price across most platforms (with iTunes sometimes being the exception). If you have a favorite retailer you like to patronize, check the title on that website. There is a good chance that they will be matching the sale price.)

Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other, different links of interest on Twitter and on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.