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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOUOr4kJ
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Confession
Argument
Project
“Among early adopters, e-books
aren't replacing their old book
habits, but adding to them. Amazon,
the biggest seller of e-books, says
its customers buy 3.3 times as many
books after buying a Kindle, a figure
that has accelerated in the past year
as prices for the device fell.”
(July 2010) I am in Whitby, Yorkshire. It is a
sunny summer day. Pensioners crowd the
foreshore and the narrow streets. The fish and
chip shops are busy and the sea gulls are huge!
I visited the Captain Cook Museum and was
surprised to see so many Goths and Goth
shops. Discovering Dracula was partly written
and set here I pulled out my Kobo and began
reading. What a mesmeric story! I couldn’t put
it down and my wife became upset that I stayed
in the B & B reading instead of walking.
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Whole device dimensions: 18cm by 12cm by
1cm.
Reading screen dimensions: 12cm by 9cm
Weight: 220 grams.
Reading screen display: E-Ink.
Font sizes choices: 5 serif and non serif
Storage: 1GB internal. Expandable to 4GB with SD
card and with battery life of 20 hours
Data transfer: Via USB from PC.
Audio: None
Navigation: 4 push buttons for Home, Menu,
Display and Back, Pad button for north, south,
east & west.
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available via www.Gutenberg.org & in the Apple app
stanza
STOKER, Bram/ Dracula
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345
Beowulf
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/981
NESBITT, Edith/ Five Children and It
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/778
CONRAD, Joseph/ Heart of Darkness
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/526
FLAUBERT, Gustav/ Madame Bovary
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27575
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Whole device dimensions: 20cm by 13.5cm by 0.5cm
Reading screen dimensions: 12cm b y 9cm
Weight: 290gm
Reading screen: E-Ink
Font size choices: 6 with serif
Storage: 1 GB and with battery life of 20 hours
Data Transfer: USB to PC and/or WiFi (Whispernet)
Audio: 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with built-in
speaker and volume control. Speech synthesis on
most books.
Navigation: 2 push buttons on the left for Previous
Page and Next Page. 4 push buttons on the right for
Home, Next Page, Menu, and Back. Button for enter,
north, south, east & west. Alpha-numeric key pad.
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available on Amazon and can be read on the Apple Kindle app on iPad
ONODA POWER, Natsu/ God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the creation of Post
World
War II Manga
http://tinyurl.com/33wxgfk
ZIPES, Jack/ Speaking Out: Storytelling and Creative Drama for Children
http://tinyurl.com/2cavqeq
HUTCHEON, Linda/ A Poetics of Post modernism
http://tinyurl.com/39bj9qc
BRENNER, Robin E./ Understanding Manga and Anime
http://tinyurl.com/2ay2vbx
GARNER, Joan/ Wings of Fantasy: using reader’s theatre to study fantasy genre
http://tinyurl.com/2366k4g
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Whole device dimensions: 24cm by 19 cm by
0.5cm
Reading screen dimensions: 20cm by 15cm
Weight: 700 grams
Reading screen display: back lit
Font choices: Variable according to app
Storage: 64GB and battery life of 10 hours
Data transfer: Via USB from PC, Wi Fi and 3G.
Audio: 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack with builtin speaker
Voice synthesiser: No
Navigation: touch screen
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iPhone Bookshelf
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookshelf/id284934036?
mt=8
Stanza
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/stanza/id284956128?mt
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3D Classic Literature Collection
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/3d-classic-literaturecollection/id352342690?mt=8
Kobo on iPad
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ebooks-by-kobohd/id364742849?mt=8
Kindle on iPad
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/kindle/id302584613?mt
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Multimedia apps
The Cat in the Hat
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/the-cat-in-the-hatdr-seuss/id353473931?mt=8
The Pedlar of Gushing Cross
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/pedlarlady/id380527812?mt=8
Jack and the Beanstalk
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/jack-beanstalkchildrens-interactive/id364871348?mt=8
Three Little Pigs HD lite
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/the-three-littlepigs-hd-lite/id364760795?mt=8
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Classic narrative text on Kobo and Kindle
Kindle and non fiction
iPad with Kindle
iPad with apps
(http://www.vicipadtrial.org/groups/myapps/)
iPad with graphic novels
Android
Risks with WiFi
Vanishing apps
Updates can be trivial or major
Collaborative Clouds (www.readcloud.com/ )
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A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing
and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said
they now read more than they did with print
books. Of those surveyed, 58% said they read
about the same as before while 2% said they read
less than before. And 55% of the respondents in
the May study, paid for by e-reader maker Sony
Corp., thought they'd use the device to read even
more books in the future. The study looked at
owners of three devices: Amazon.com Inc.'s
Kindle, Apple Inc.'s iPad and the Sony Reader.
http://vimeo.com/15142335