The University of California Press e-books collection holds books published by UCP (and a select few printed by other academic presses) between 1982-2004. The general public currently…
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More than 135,000 books still in copyright are going online for free in Norway after an innovative scheme by the National Library ensured that publishers…
Part of the new deal with Overdrive is to make libraries offer a Buy it Now button on their online websites. When patrons visit the…
Woot! …the USB side-loading requirement for Penguin eBooks on Kindle devices has been lifted. Today, we are pleased to inform our partners and end-users that…
So I started wondering how my 2013 numbers compared to my 2012 numbers and here’s what I came up with: 2013 books read count: 118%…
Total # of books read: 118 Total page count: 24,556 Fiction: 91 Non-Fiction: 27 Print: 67.75 eBooks: 30.25 Graphic Novels: 12 Audiobooks: 8 Male Authors:…
For the archivist, it means that the paper they once collected – manuscripts for novels, notepads, UN speeches and what have you – no longer…
Somehow I’ve been bookmarking a whole bunch of articles about new digital archives lately that I’ve decided to just dump them all into a single…
When you read a book or an article on your Android device, how much power—and access to your personal data—are you giving the app? A…
The National Library of Norway is planning to digitize all the books by the mid 2020s. Yes. All. The. Books. In Norwegian, at least. Hundreds…