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Michel Roland-Guill

How do American or European libraries serve their clients with e-books? Give files for ... - 0 views

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ebooks libraries

shared by Michel Roland-Guill on 08 Jan 11 - Cached
  • OverDrive
  • The user experience of getting an ebook onto certain devices is actually kind of awful, but users are pleased once they can get popular titles on the ebooks for free without having to leave home.
  • Michel Roland-Guill on 08 Jan 11
     
    Joan Stewart, Librarian and Knowledge Wrangler
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  • An open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress, built on the Carringon Theme framework. Annotum provides a complete, open-access scholarly journal production system including peer-review, workflow, and advanced editing and formatting features such as structured figures, equations, PubMed and CrossRef reference import, and structured XML input and output compatible with the National Library of Medicine's Journal Article DTD.
Michel Roland-Guill

A Look at the Reading Habits of E-Reader Owners - WSJ.com - 0 views

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lecture reading ebooks liseuses eraders

shared by Michel Roland-Guill on 26 Aug 10 - Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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  • because e-book gadgets are portable, people report they're reading more and at times when a book isn't normally an option: on a smartphone in the doctor's waiting room; through a Ziploc-bag-clad Kindle in a hot tub, or on a treadmill with a Sony Reader's fonts set to jumbo.
  • Mystery and thriller author Michael Connelly says he has about 30 e-books on his Kindle, Sony Reader and iPad
  • Compared with print, iPad readers were 6.2% slower and Kindle readers were 10.7% slower, though the difference between the iPad and Kindle results wasn't statistically significant
  • "Both devices give you a more relaxed feeling as opposed to a computer,"
  • In creating the Kindle, Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive, says he set out to develop technology that could encourage long-form reading, instead of just snippets.
  • "A nightmare scenario for me would be if this device would ever beep at me while I'm reading."
  • men are bigger consumers of e-books than women by a narrow margin. Among e-book buyers, 52% were men compared with 48% for women—a reversal of print books, where women buy more. E-reader users also say that 52% of their e-books were ones they purchased, while 48% of their e-books were free because they were sample giveaways or out-of-copyright.
  • 66% of libraries offered e-book loans, up from just 38% in 2005.
  • Pages may be antiquated, but they're very helpful for making sure reading-club participants or students in a classroom are all on the same page. No page numbers also means there's no skipping ahead to sneak a peek at a page near the end of a book. Most e-readers have tried to replace page numbers by showing the percentage of the book read.
  • With an e-reader, readers can hold and turn pages with just one hand.
  • work in bed even when the lights are off
Michel Roland-Guill

Reading in a Whole New Way | 40th Anniversary | Smithsonian Magazine - 1 views

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lecture literacy Kelly

shared by Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • America was founded on the written word.
  • the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and, indirectly, the Bible
  • But reading and writing, like all technologies, are dynamic.
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  • Being able to read silently to yourself was considered an amazing talent. Writing was an even rarer skill. In 15th-century Europe only one in 20 adult males could write.
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Vision technicisée et progressiste des pratiques de l'écriture, où il est assez naturel de retrouver relayé le mythe de la rareté de la lecture silencieuse dans l'Antiquité. Je crois avoir lu quelque part, et même en plusieurs endroits, que la connaissance et la pratique au moins rudimentaire de l'écriture était très répandue dans l'antiquité classique (grecque et romaine) au rebours de ce que soutient Kelly ici. Mais il s'appuie vraisemblablement sur des études sérieuses valant pour le 15e s. et dans sa vision linéaire d'un progrès fondé sur la succession des innovations techniques cela implique qu'on ne savait généralement pas écrire dans l'antiquité.Il n'est pas difficile de deviner combien une vision aussi simpliste, aussi simplement orientée de l'évolution des pratiques de la lettre est aujourd'hui, au moment où il nous faut évaluer une révolution nouvelle de ces pratiques est sinon nuisible au moins handicapante.
  • the romance novel was invented in 1740
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      ?? Sur quoi se base-t-il?
  • In time, the power of authors birthed the idea of authority and bred a culture of expertise. Perfection was achieved “by the book.”
  • a people of the book.
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Intéressant comme est ici condensé un imaginaire américain de la lettre. A remarquer que cet attachement au livre et à la chose écrite ne se double d'aucun intellectualisme, au contraire. La situation française est bien différentes et à plusieurs égards opposée. Au point qu'on peut se demander si la crise de la culture française ne s'explique pas, en partie et à ce niveau, par une contradiction entre ses éléments structurants et ceux de la culture américaine telle qu'elle est transmise par les médias de la culture populaire, cinéma et télévision au premier chef.
  • a reflex to do something
  • The amount of time people spend reading has almost tripled since 1980
  • This new platform is very visual, and it is gradually merging words with moving images
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Gros enjeu là, voir billet de F. Kaplan sur epub.
  • But it is not book reading
  • It is screen reading
  • dog-ear
  • it seemed weird five centuries ago to see someone read silently
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      !!! (voir Gavrilov & Burnyeat)
  • a contemplative mind
  • memory
  • utilitarian thinking
  • We review a movie while we watch it,
  • Wikipedia
  • Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels fast, corrections do, too.
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Angélisme. Cf. article à retrouver: endogamie des échanges sur les blogues et les forums
  • Screens provoke action instead of persuasion.
  • On networked screens everything is linked to everything else.
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Ici le coeur de la contradiction chez Kelly: la révolution numérique est appréhendée depuis le paradigme américain pré-révolution numérique qui oppose autorité et individualisme. Or la RN redistribue ici (peut-être plus qu'ailleurs) les cartes en contestant, en même temps que le rôle de l'autorité, l'individualisme libéral dont les historiens de la lecture ont montré qu'il s'est construit, depuis Augustin mais particulièrement à la Renaissance par le commerce singulier avec le livre.
  • In books we find a revealed truth; on the screen we assemble our own truth from pieces
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Tradition vs. Individualisme.
  • the degree to which it is linked to the rest of the world.
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Page Rank
  • the inner nature of things
  • informational layer
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      Bande de Möbius.
    • Michel Roland-Guill
      Michel Roland-Guill on 01 Nov 10
       
      contradiction apparente: the inner nature = informationnal layer. cf. Derrida.
  • to “read” everything, not just text
  • Not to see our face, but our status
  • lifelogging
  • By 1910 three-quarters of the towns in America with more than 2,500 residents had a public library.
  • Today some 4.5 billion digital screens illuminate our lives.
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