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More audiobook publishers drop DRM: will Audible follow suit?
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on March 02, 2008
Following on the news that Random House Audio is dropping DRM on its audiobooks, both Penguin and Simon & Schuster Audio have announced DRM-free trials for their products. I really hope this means that Audible/Amazon will drop the DRM on its audiobooks now. I used to spend a fortune on Audible books until I realized that the DRM had locked me into iTunes (and had to spend a solid month unlocking...
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Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by Blake on March 02, 2008
The NYTimes Reports Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books.The trend will allow consumers who download audio books to freely transfer these digital files between devices like their computers, iPods and cellphones — and conceivably share them with others. Dropping copying restrictions could also allow a...
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Brief books are in style (AP)
via Yahoo! News: Top Stories by (author unknown) on February 29, 2008
AP - As he prepared a biography of Edgar Allan Poe, author Peter Ackroyd read through more than 20 volumes of Poe's work and filled two file cabinet drawers with notes more information than the most devoted fan could absorb in a lifetime.
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Browse Your Digital Photos in 3D Stacks with PicMe [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 26, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application PicMe scans your digital photo library and displays your pics in a flashy 3D-ish stacked interface. PicMe is primarily an image browser, and that's what it's best at, but you can also use it to share photos, either with photo sharing webapps like Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, or Facebook, or with PicMe contacts. The free version allows you to share 200...
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A Gallery of Creative Bookshelf Designs
via Neatorama by Alex on February 25, 2008
Freshome blog has an excellent post about 30 of the most creative bookshelf designs. Some of them have been featured here on Neatorama, but there are many that I haven’t seen before: Link
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Think you know Wikipedia? You might… or you might just think you do
via ACRLog by Kim Leeder on February 26, 2008
Up until about two weeks ago, I was a Wikipedia snob. I thought that I knew what it was and how it worked. I had looked at the site, browsed through a few entries, and edited a couple of test pages anonymously to see how easy it was to screw with the entries. I had read a few articles & blog posts (including in ACRLog) that were skeptical about the site. I would say things like, “Sure,...
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University to Give iPhones (or iPods) to All Incoming Freshmen
via The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Jeff Young on February 26, 2008
Abilene Christian University says it will be the first university in the country to give iPhones or iPods to all freshmen. Today the university unveiled an elaborate news-media blitz on its Web site, including an online video showing a fictionalized account of how the university plans to use the devices for various services on campus.The 900 students who will start at the university this fall...
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Compare Files Online with Google Docs [File Diff]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 26, 2008
If you work with other people, you've invariably ended up with multiple versions of the same document. We've shown you how to compare and merge file differences with WinMerge, a desktop Windows application, but for those times you either can't install WinMerge or just need a quick comparison, weblog Digital Inspiration suggests using Google Docs to compare text online. Since Google...
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Gutenberg-e is now an open access site
via Peter Scott's Library Blog - sponsored by Credo Reference by Peter on February 26, 2008
"Columbia University Press has announced that Gutenberg-e is now an open access site. These award winning monographs, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories. The American Council of Learned Societies also...
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