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Why Don’t I Get an E-book For Free When I Buy a Print Book from Amazon?

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Why Don’t I Get an E-book For Free When I Buy a Print Book from Amazon?

There are compelling reasons to own a print book you want to read, AND to have an e-book version to go along with it. It is devilishly hard to save all your notes and clipping when you have a print copy, and you can’t admire a book on your bookshelf or share it with a friend (in most cases) when you have an e-book copy. So what gives? Why not have both? And since the content is the same, why isn’t one of those copies FREE? “Whyâ€� you don’t get a free digital version of a physical book that you purchase from Amazon is a reflection of the “profit motive” at work. As with …

Tips to Play Audible Audiobooks on Alexa

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Tips to Play Audible Audiobooks on Alexa

Will she do what you ask? Reading has come a long way since the advent of the Amazon Kindle ten-plus years ago. Now the Kindle reading app allows us to read on any of our devices, supported by the arguably incomparable Kindle reading ecosystem, which includes saving our clippings in the cloud, synching our reading position across our various devices, looking up words, people, and ideas with the press of a finger, and so on and so on. It is a remarkable edifice, this sprawling Kindle empire. Now, with …

Use Google Keep to collect quotes from anywhere, even print

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Use Google Keep to collect quotes from anywhere, even print

If you are like me, keeping track of quotes I find in ebooks borders on fanaticism. If you live in the Kindle Reader universe, we know that you can clip and save text in an online repository for later use. That system works great. But what if you are reading a print book? (They do still exist…) The article linked below from the folks at Ebook Friendly gives a nice overview of how to use Google Keep (an EduKindle favorite) to use Keep’s OCR function to accomplish this goal. I have to say, Keep’s …

The Growing World of Worldreader, Part 2

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The Growing World of Worldreader, Part 2

As a follow up to our chat a few weeks back, Worldreader CEO David Risher was kind enough to answer a few more questions for me. First, I wondered how the money from the Bezos grant would be used? Our goal this year is to move from 10,000 kids with access to e-readers to over 50,000.  Jeff’s grant is a big part of that– it helps us get more books from publishers, train teachers and students, ship the e-readers– we’re even using it to help develop a solar case that kids can use to keep their e…