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Kindle from a Library Perspective
Mark LudwigSUNY Buffalo
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Kindle Book Reader
• Should I buy a Kindle?• Kindle content• Kindle features• E-book formats• Library Use?
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Kindle Demo
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Kindle Store
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Web Browser
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Other Content
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Search
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Library Use?
• One Library in NJ• Amazon Prohibition on “many users”• Very fast way to buy books. (fast ILL?)• Thousands of books on a $6 SD card• SEARCH!!!! And it’s full text.• Kindles can be ‘de-registered’ to share.• Do we have anything we want to full-text-
index and selectively distribute off-web?
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Should I buy a Kindle? No.
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/07/the-ipod-not-the-kindle-may-be-the-ipod-of-ebooks/ (ipod and iphone better)
• http://chronicle.com/review/brainstorm/index.php?id=874 (paperback is better)
• http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5izIfK1d_73aUXfPkFJYOZVsA01LwD93IMDF80(new Sony Reader, not wireless, but better hardware.)
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Should I buy a Kindle? Yes.
• Amazon has the most content.• Amazon content is formatted and usually
readable.• Search, dictionary and wireless delivery
are cool.• I travel a lot and hang out in coffee shops
and like to read there.• I don’t have an iphone.