28 January 2008
By Gideon
In ebooks
This continues the series on using an eBook reader academically.
Of course, as fun as a shiny new piece of technology is, we must make it work for us. “Geek to live, not live to geek” and all that.You have a few options when it comes to acquiring content for your device.
Buy It
Scan It
Download it [...]
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28 January 2008
By Gideon
In ebooks
Over the past few weeks I’ve spent some time dealing with eBook readers. One thing I’ve found I can do, most the time, is kind of mindless technical work. I’ve installed Ubuntu on my Mac (in a Boot Camp partition) and used it for a few days (review: great, but still not ready [...]
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13 January 2008
By Gideon
In ebooks, mobile
In just one of the strange things you’ll be seeing here from time to time, I created a webapp of the classic Buddhist text - the Dhammapada. You can view it on browsers aside from an iPhone, but you probably won’t get full functionality.
I actually created it while trying to work out good way to [...]
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ebooks, iphone, webapp