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I would add, that if you ever looked for books in your own library, you would love this app. It's for Android however, so I cannot use it myself. But this is one of the best ideas I've heard on in many weeks! A post from ReadWriteWeb by Audrey Watters has the whole story . Here is a part: If you've ever worked in a library, you're familiar with the drudgery of shelf reading. That's the process of verifying that all the books on a shelf are in the right order, based on their call numbers. Books get out of order fairly easily, when they're taken off the shelf and examined, for example, or when they're just stuck in the wrong place. Miami University's Augmented Reality Research Group ( MU ARRG ! - that exclamation point, I confess, is my addition), led by Professor Bo Brinkman, has developed an Android app that could save librarians a lot of time and hassle. Using the Android's camera, the app "reads" a bookshelf, and with an AR overlay,...

A History of the World in 100 Seconds from Gareth Lloyd on Vimeo . Victor Hugo would have loved this film. He likened knowledge with light. A post from FlowingData by Nathan Yau has the whole story . Here is a part: As you know, the world wasn't always how you know it today. Land was discovered, people migrated, and significant events in history played out to shape what society is like now. For a glimpse in this sort of evolution of the world, Gareth Lloyd scraped all geotagged Wikipedia articles with time attached to them, providing a total of 14,238 events. Then  he mapped them over time .   Your history lesson begins in 499 BC, when most of the documented events appear in Europe. Around the middle mark, you see some activity in Asia. Finally, around 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, got lost, and thought he was in India, there's a burst of activity worldwide. Fast forward to present day, and you've got an image that resembles a modern map.

En sekser av Asbjørnsen er en god anbefaling. Men jeg synes 329,- er for dyrt for en krim. Og i tillegg er jeg i Spania så da tar det vinter og vår å få tak i den. Til jeg kom på at boka er jo svensk. Og søkte den opp og kjøpte eboka på bokus.se. Det tok ti minutter. Orderbekräftelse Tack för att du köpte din e-bok från Bokus Information om din order Ordernummer: eBok2688499 Kundnamn: Morten Jacobsen E-post: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Titel: Tre sekunder Författare: Roslund & Hellström Format: EPUB med vattenmärke Pris: 44.8 kr Betalning: VISA 45 kroner for en ebok i Apples format! Og svensk er bare litt vanskeligere enn nynorsk. Det tar noen sider og så glemmer du at du ikke leser norsk. Jeg har lastet den inn iBooks både på iPad og iPhone. Nå skal jeg teste ut hvor fort jeg leser en ebok. Prøv det du og. Les en god krim, og unngå den norske boksky-skatten som vil koste mer enn den svenske boka! En post fra VG har anmeldsen av boka ....

My nearest city Hamar has a really nice bookstore - Gravdahl . They also have the best coffee-bar in town, and it's big fun for me drinking espresso and looking at new books. I'm quiet concerned about their future however. The Norwegian publisher are releasing their own ebook store where they will charge customers 5-6 times the price of Amazone. It goes only as long as only a small minority knows how to connect to Amazone and the likes. And it will come during some months. It have however been under development a long time. It will still charge 30%, and it is betting everything in that pricesensivity doesn't exist in Norway. I expect them to fail. So, Gravdahl, try to implement the advice in this article! A post from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging by Joe Wikert has the whole story . Here is a part: This post originally appeared on Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog (" Helping Bookstores Remain Relevant "). It's...

This is music in my ears. As an app produces, words cannot sound sweeter than this post from Dediu. A post from asymco.com by Horace Dediu has the original story . Here it is with kind permissions: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” The Passion of Steve Jobs – NYTimes.com It was almost exactly three years ago that Steve Jobs dismissed the Kindle reader as a futile attempt to change user behavior. Yesterday, Steve Jobs announced that the iBooks store served 100 million ebooks in its first 11 months of operations. So do we have another example of Steve’s classic misdirection where he dismisses a category only to enter and dominate it at some later time? Let’s look at the data. The chart below shows the sales ramp of three media types served by Apple: songs, ap...