America was founded on the written word.
Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 1 views
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the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and, indirectly, the Bible
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But reading and writing, like all technologies, are dynamic.
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MétaLectures | Lectureslab.ch - 0 views
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MétaLectures est un projet de dispositif expérimental de lecture sociale connectée. Il renouvelle au 21e siècle la pratique des cabinets de lecture du 18e, apportant une dimension nouvelle liée aux apports des technologies de la communication.
Les problématiques des ebooks en bibliothèques - 0 views
A Look at the Reading Habits of E-Reader Owners - WSJ.com - 0 views
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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.
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Some 11 million Americans are expected to own at least one digital reading gadget by the end of September, estimates Forrester Research. U.S. e-book sales grew 183% in the first half of this year compared with the year-earlier period, according to the Association of American Publishers.
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Amazon, the biggest seller of e-books, says its customers buy 3.3 times as many books after buying a Kindle
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10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books - Science and Tech - The Atlantic - 0 views
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1. The phrase "reading revolution" was probably coined by German historian Rolf Engelsing. He certainly made it popular. Engelsing was trying to describe something he saw in the 18th century: a shift from "intensive" reading and re-reading of very few texts to "extensive" reading of many, often only once
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other historians quickly found counterexamples of extensive premodern reading (Cicero and his letters) and intensive reading today
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2. Outside of scholarly circles, the top candidate is usually the better-known Print Revolution, usually associated with Johannes Gutenberg, who helped introduce movable type to Europe. Now, as Andrew Pettegree's new history The Book in the Renaissance shows, the early years of print were much messier than advertised: no one knew quite what to do with this technology, especially how to make money off of it.
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Darwin's Library » On immersiveness - 0 views
Livres électroniques: quelle liseuse pour quel format? [ebook] | OnSoftware F... - 0 views
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ePub est un format ouvert standardisé. Il a déjà été accepté par une grande partie des constructeurs, et se présente donc comme le format idéal pour vos livres numériques, car vous pourrez ainsi les lire sur de nombreux supports sans conversion. Le format en lui-même est un mini site internet (à base de XML) contenant le texte, les images, les informations de mise en page et de navigation. Seule limitation, une mise en page avancée (la bande dessinée ou les livres techniques) est difficile à mettre en place sur ce format plutôt dédié aux textes simples.
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Attention, le Kindle d’Amazon ne supporte pas le format ePub.
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Les liseuses modernes supportent toutes le PDF, mais les caractéristiques de son format (les données sont encapsulées, enfermées) n’offrent pas une grande flexibilité pour la lecture sur livre électronique.
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