Game Over for the EDL?

03 Mar 2013
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Game Over for the EDL?

03 Mar 2013
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DjVU – Something old, something new

03 Mar 2013
“I’m an e-book nitwit and frankly I don’t care”. About a year ago I still could not believe e-books could be anything but miserable. I was sure that I would never feel the same way about reading from a screen compared to paper books. After a... more

Privacy in the era of Amazon Kindle

03 Mar 2013
Privacy. According to The Oxford English Dictionary it is a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people. When we were young, we were taught that it is not polite to read over someone else’s shoulder. One might even be perceived... more

Goodreads: share what you’re reading.

03 Mar 2013
In his article ‘The abuses of literacy: Amazon Kindle and it’s right to read’ Ted Striphas talks about the e-reader gadget Kindle, one of the many devices that allows readers all over the world (in Kindle’s case, Amazon customers) to buy and read ... more

Wu Ming’s interview “Beppe Grillo lives on the ruins of the movements"

03 Mar 2013
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Subverting the System: How to Annoy Amazon in Five Neat Little Steps

03 Mar 2013
It’s a disquieting idea: everything you do on the web, on your smartphone and on your tablet is tracked, and all that data is gathered somewhere in the void of the internet. Thankfully, most of that data is relatively anonymous, lost in a vast clo... more

Is HTML the solution for digital reading?

03 Mar 2013
As you may have noticed, we live in quite an interesting time regarding publishing. As the digital revolution evolves, new publishing forms are coming up. At this point we can not yet say which format we will be using for publishing over ten or tw... more

Now for Some Light Reading: A Bibliofile’s Review of the Sony PRS T2 e-reader

03 Mar 2013
For a long time, I felt an aversion towards e-readers and electronic reading. How could reading from a screen ever top reading from paper? How could one simple, small device triumph over bookshelves crammed with beautiful books? Of course, I could... more

Reading e-books: why Kindle is not the new standard (yet)

03 Mar 2013
Our lives are filled with the use of standards, as Alexander Galloway (2006) explained already quite some time ago. The old-fashioned VHS was a standard that has been replaced with a new one, the DVD, and there are a lot of standards on the Intern... more

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