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Growing Up Without Ebooks

To celebrate School Library month, MyVoucherCodes invited me to do a post on how ebooks have changed the world. More specifically, how ebooks might impact children’s literacy. I’ve talked about ebooks before, and in general I am an advocate of digital tools. And my thoughts on this particular topic can easily be summarized. Let us […]

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An Ebook Love Affair

Last year, I did this post on readers versus collectors. Generally book lovers tend to lean towards one of either of these categories – either they just want to consume books, often lending them in the library, or they like collecting them and have them matching and looking pretty on their shelves. I fell solidly […]

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Tour of the Forgotten Books Website

It’s been a while since I did my tour of the bookish website Fictfact, but another cool bookish site has been brought to my attention. Forgotten Books has a concept similar to Project Gutenberg, a personal favourite, but gives it an updated look and a more user-friendly interface. What is it? For literally thousands (if […]

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The New Internet Pirates: Ebook Downloading

Yesterday in an article on The High Low, there has been stated that “One in every three people who download e-books on their digital readers do so illegally”. Even though this statement at first seems shocking, I personally can’t see this problem so black and white as a lot of authors and publishers do. Don’t […]

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