100 Useful Links for eBook Lovers

Here are 100 useful links for ebook lovers.

Born Digital resources

As we continue reading Born Digital, here are a couple of links which might be of interest in our journey of understanding the first generation of digital natives: main website with information about the book and links to the project's resources; and a pbs-sponsored webinar featuring John Palfrey (scroll down to "Teaching and Learning with Digital Natives") with links to both audio and video versions.

Recent Reads

When seventeen-year-old Peter Houghton decides to get revenge on peers who have bullied him since his first days of school, he chooses to take a gun to school and kills ten people. Set in Sterling, New Hampshire, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult investigates the impact a high school shooting has on the surrounding community. Picoult realistically portrays the detrimental effects social hierarchies may pose on students in public schools. At the end of this novel, Peter’s mother asks, "Everyone would remember Peter for nineteen minutes of his life, but what about the other nine million?" Complete with dynamic character relationships, this is a must read for those working in America’s schools.

Kindle vs. iPhone?

Take a look at the article published in today’s Christian Science Monitor entitled “What’s Hot on iPhone? Books, books, books!” The article claims the creation of book-related apps has exceeded the number of apps created for games for the fourth-straight month! With so many using iPhones and iPod touch devices, will the Kindle seize to exist?