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Scott Peterson

Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain - Medical News Today - 0 views

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    Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Saturday 28 December 2013 - 12am PST Neurology / Neuroscience add your opinion email MNT FeaturedAcademic Journal Add your rating Current ratings for: Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Public / Patient: 4.3 (12 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Health Professionals: 5 (3 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Lovers of literature can rejoice: a new study combines the humanities and neuroscience to take a look at what effects reading a novel can have on the brain. Researchers say exploring a book can not only change your perspective, but also it can change your mind - at least for a few days.
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    Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Saturday 28 December 2013 - 12am PST Neurology / Neuroscience add your opinion email MNT FeaturedAcademic Journal Add your rating Current ratings for: Reading a novel triggers lasting changes in the brain Public / Patient: 4.3 (12 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Health Professionals: 5 (3 votes) 1 2 3 4 5 Lovers of literature can rejoice: a new study combines the humanities and neuroscience to take a look at what effects reading a novel can have on the brain. Researchers say exploring a book can not only change your perspective, but also it can change your mind - at least for a few days.
Scott Peterson

Librarian suggests turning the page on longtime reading club winner - 0 views

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    A disappoint article about a library's response to a reading club winner who is perpetually ahead. There is no evidence he is cheating, but because he wins the contest continually the other kids get discouraged and quit. However, rather than discourage the child from his love of reading, I wonder if an alternate idea would be to make leagues, so there is an overall contest but children also complete with reading groups of a similar level.
Scott Peterson

EDUCE - Imaging the Herculaneum Scrolls - 0 views

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    A video about the EDUCE project to scan and read the scrolls from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Herculaneum was the second and lesser known city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. The scrolls were in what is probably the only library from antiquity to survive "intact," but the volcanic ash carbonized the scrolls so they are essentially charcoal. Some have been "read" by unwrapping the scroll in segments and scanning in ultraviolet light detect the ink, this is the first time the scanning has been done non-invasively to read the scroll without destroying it.
Scott Peterson

America's Facebook Generation Is Reading Strong - 0 views

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    A generally positive article, notable that reading is a prominent part of the 16-29 age groups lives. Further, over half have used a library in the past year and consider eBooks not as a replacement for print but a supplement to their general reading habits.
Scott Peterson

Brazil prisoners reading books to shorten their sentences - 0 views

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    Interesting idea. I wonder who okays the books they can read.
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    Yeah, I think that might backfire a la "Shawshank Redemption": Dufresne: (in response to another inmate's discovery of "The Count of Monte Cristo") You know what it's about? You'll like it. It's about a prison break. Red: We oughta file that under "Educational" too, oughten we?
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    The benefits of this are pretty clear, and allow some realistic limits, letting prisoners read up to 12 books to take 48 days off of their sentence each year.
Scott Peterson

Your Ebook is reading you - 0 views

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    On the one hand this is nothing new, several entertainment industries are using deep analytics to see how customers use their products. However, many Ebook readers may not be aware that how long they take to read a book or what they read is being tracked. Customers may avoid books on controversial or personal subjects out of privacy concerns, and publishing may being taking a by-the-numbers approach where they depend more on analytics than market experience and become less willing to try new ideas and authors.
Scott Peterson

What 20 years of best sellers say about what we read - 0 views

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    An overview of how what we read has changed from 2003-2013 as well as reading styles, covering 1993-1998 as a the era of "brick and mortar" stores, 1999-2009 as the "dotcom era" of online sellers still selling physical boos, and finally the present era of eBooks.
Scott Peterson

Word Book Night - 0 views

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    The website for an event to give out books to people who don't regularly read. IN the U.S. the figures are 25,000 volunteers giving out 500,000 books. While an annual event that happened on April 23rd it needs more promotion, I hadn't heard of it until I read an article about it.
anonymous

Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees | The Verge - 0 views

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    Oracle is suing Google over the use of their Java API's in Android. This should be an interesting case. Google argues that while you can copyright a finished product, you shouldn't be able to copyright the computer language used to build the product - just like a novelist can copyright a book but nobody can copyright English. Oracle disagrees and says that if the language is unique enough, then it should be protected. They cite Klingon as an example. I read through Oracle's filing and it actually looks pretty strong. I didn't bother reading Google's because it's pretty clear that Google is missing the point that Oracle isn't upset that they used Java, but that they bundled all the extra API's. I really feel for the judge and jury having to hear this case. Oracle's brief isn't exactly light on the technical details...
anonymous

10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) - 1 views

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    This is in Hardy's bookmarks, so I thought I'd give these papers a read.
Jessica Hammond

E-Book Is Reading You - 0 views

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    In the past, publishers and authors had no way of knowing what happens when a reader sits down with a book. Does the reader quit after three pages, or finish it in a single sitting? Do most readers skip over the introduction, or read it closely, underlining passages and scrawling notes in the margins? Now, e-books are providing a glimpse into the story behind the sales figures, revealing not only how many people buy particular books, but how intensely they read them.
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    I realize I should probably be bothered by this some a privacy point of view, but I kind of like the idea that my reading habits are offering concrete feedback. "Dear publisher, this is where the book got boring and I gave up."
Scott Peterson

Google Books ruling is a huge victory for online innovation - 0 views

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    A major victory for Google where the scanning of books has been justified as fair use, however it curious much of the case hinged on the scanning being "transformative" in the sense of the scanned material being used as a finding aid rather than a tool to read books, even though many books are entirely available to be read online.
Scott Peterson

Half of 2011 papers now free to read - 0 views

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    An interesting article showing the progress of open-access despite DRM and publisher control. However, my next question remains unanswered: Are these the papers that people want to read?
Scott Peterson

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming - 0 views

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    The social worth of libraries and the need for reading and inspiration is examined, in particular I found it interesting how the private prison industry determined it's future cell needs by the percentage of the population that was illiterate.
Megan Durham

Vintage Ads for Libraries and Reading - 1 views

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    This is really just a fun Friday article. These are all pretty cute--except for the one with the little girl ("Bad Seed" much?) its just plain creepy.
adrienne_mobius

What Should Children Read? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Depending on your point of view, the now contentious guidelines prescribe a healthy - or lethal - dose of nonfiction."
adrienne_mobius

'Social Reading' Projects Bring Commentary Into the Text - Technology - The Chronicle o... - 0 views

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    Stephen Duncombe, a professor at New York University, has created a free, online version of Thomas More's Utopia that anyone can browse and annotate. The project is called Open Utopia (http://theopenutopia.org/).
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

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    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
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    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
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    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
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    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
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    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
adrienne_mobius

Want to Be a Great Leader? Start Reading - 0 views

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    "Steve Jobs had an 'inexhaustible interest' in William Blake; Nike founder Phil Knight so reveres his library that in it you have to take off your shoes and bow; and Harman Industries founder Sidney Harman called poets 'the original systems thinkers,' quoting freely from Shakespeare and Tennyson."
adrienne_mobius

When You Wish Upon a Book - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    It's never been easier to keep track of all the books you're never going to read.
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