Category Archives: News

Daily Links : A new Harry Potter story

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From Lifehacker, Spot a boring Kindle Book by looking at popular highlights.

JK Rowling post a new Harry Potter background story on Pottermore, from The Digital Reader

From Teleread, Almost a year with Scribd. Has anything changed with my reading?

Whispersync comes to the UK with 10 freebies, from The Ebook Reader.

From ReadWrite, In exposing followers, Medium fails readers.

As part of Amazon’s Daily Deals, there are 12 award winning Sci-fi deals,  including books by Octavia Butler, Harlan Ellison and John Brunner for only $1.99 each.

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.

 

Free Comic Books

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weird_mysteriesLooking for Free Comic books?

How about free access to over 15,000 Golden Age Comics, including some interesting pre-code horror comics from the Digital Comic Museum?

Or if you want a great deal on something a little more recent, how about a trial subscription to Marvel Unlimited for only 99 cents for the first month?

Found via Open Culture – which happens to be one of the best resources for fascinating free public domain materials on the web. Hint: You should really subscribe to their feed. 🙂

Daily Links: Darwin’s Complete Galapagos Library Online

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From ArsTechnica, Charles Darwin’s Complete Galapagos library is posted online.

Amazon is testing a new subscription service called Kindle Unlimited via The Digital Reader. (There will be lots more to come on this story!)

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.

 

 

 

Daily Links: Publishers offer free, discounted books you already own

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From Boing Boing, Publishers offer free or discounted e-books of books you already own 

US National Archives To Upload All Holdings To Wikimedia Commons, from TechCrunch.

And from the eBookReader, a look at the E-Card smartphone reader.

Interesting piece from Zapier:  Read More, Faster and Better with these 30+ Apps, Tips and Tricks.

There is An infographic on e-book piracy from Teleread.

And finally, from Talking New Media, the sad state of the digital Newsweek magazine.

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.

 

 

Daily Links: Public Domain in the Digital Age

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From BoingBoing, an interesting piece on the public domain in the digital age and the concept of copyfraud.

Open Culture has an article on the Speech Accent Archive – The English accents of people who speak 341 different languages.

Amazon has 31 apps for free today (Saturday) via the Amazon App Store.

And on Making Use Of, you will find game, productivity and musical apps are on sale or free for the iPad. Note that I found that some of the pricing did not apply when purchased through a device other than an iPad.

My E-book finds of the day are The Golem and the Jinni (P.S.) and The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us from my to-be-read list. They are each on sale today for only $1.99.

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.

Daily Links: Deal on Kindle Fire HD and more

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Kindle FireToday, Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a refurbished Kindle Fire 8.9  for only $139.00. This is the previous generation model with the micro HDMI port. I use mine a lot for streaming video because of that port.

The eBook Reader has a great post on turning your Android tablet into an ereader, with a comprehensive list of reading apps for Android.

I’ve been MIA because of a couple of home projects, but here are a few other interesting recent links:

Willing to pay extra for a truly waterproof Kindle?  You may find this article from Techcrunch interesting.

I missed this when it happened, but Daniel Keyes, the author of one of my favorite books, Flowers for Algernon, has passed away. A short piece here on Galleycat.

Being a zombie fan, I also like to read books on preparedness (prepping). This article with instructions for A Bug Out Kindle loaded with survival books was interesting, although, I personally would have used an e-ink Kindle. Hey, I already have the Goal Zero Solar Recharging Kit to keep it working in an emergency!

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.

Samsung partners with Nook for a new tablet

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Today brings news that Samsung is partnering with Barnes and Noble on a new co-branded Nook Tablet that will be based on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 4 model. The Galaxy Tab series is a popular line of tablets and new device is planned to build off incorporate the hardware and “provide customers “with easy access to Barnes & Noble’s expansive digital collection of more than three million books, leading magazines and newspapers.”

According to the press release:

The companies are expected to introduce Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 NOOK in a 7-inch version in the U.S. in early August. The co-branded tablets will be prominently displayed along with NOOK eReaders and sold at Barnes & Noble’s nearly 700 bookstores across the U.S. and online at bn.com, one of the leading e-commerce sites.

Barnes and Noble says it plans to continue to sell (and support) its Nook Glowlight.

There is no mention of what the co-branded tablet will be called. I will be interested in seeing how the tablet is differentiated from Samsung’s own Galaxy Tab series. I currently run the Nook reading app on a Samsung tablet and am also curious as to how the experience of using the new device will be different.

 

Daily Links: 9 books by Noam Chomsky for Free

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From Open Culture: Read 9 books by Noam Chomsky for free online

From Digital Book World: WOWIO launches ad-supported e-book app with 350,000 Ingram titles

From Ars Technica: Google Glass gives deaf an ASL interpreter

I missed this, but yesterday marked the 107th birthday of Rachael Carson, author of Silent Spring, the book credited with launching the environmental movement.

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.

Daily Links: The Evolution of the Kobo in Pictures

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From the Goodereader: The evolution of the Kobo ereader in pictures

From Teleread: Let’s Stop the e-book judging

From Digital Book World:  Lock: Like the NeRD, a read-only ereader

From The Digital Reader:  Feedbooks acquires Aldiko

I am deliberately choosing not to talk about the Amazon – Hachette controversy. I am not without an opinion on the matter, but there is plenty of bias out there on both sides. The story is obviously receiving plenty of coverage….

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.