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Upload Personal Docs To Google Play

And read them anywhere! You can keep up to 1,000 EPUB or PDF files in Google Play for free. You’re able to upload from your PC or import from Google Drive. More details at [Google]

11 April 2013

Computing

The Day I Forgot How To Use A Book

I was shocked at what I had just done, so I laughed out loud. I was there, in a house in the Swiss mountains, lying comfortably on a sofa. I was reading Canetti’s Crowds and Power, a solid 400-page book. And then, as my eyes were approaching the end of yet another page, I swiped upwards.

1 March 2013

Geek Out

Meet The World’s Oldest Kindle: A Ferris Wheel For Books

It might be hard to imagine, but there was once a time where thousands upon thousands of books and arguably the sum totally of human knowledge was not readily available at your fingertips. And while it’s no Kindle, Agostino Ramelli’s 16th century bookwheel was a valiant attempt to make that happen.

5 February 2013

Software

Would You Buy Ebooks On A Pay-As-You-Read Basis?

An Israeli start-up called TotalBooX is planning to “disrupt” the ebook market by selling books on a pay-as-you-read basis. Would you be interested?

18 January 2013

Geek Out

Five Books Every Aspiring Designer Must Read

Maybe you’re an engineer, maybe you work with a designer. Or maybe you think that design is about using Photoshop. Maybe you just care about design. If any of these are true, then there’s a lot you can learn by reading and understanding these books. They will help you understand how to solve problems for people out there in the real world.

11 January 2013

Software

Big Bird Will Teach Kids To Read With Qualcomm’s Augmented Reality Tech

Were children just totally illiterate before Sesame Street? Because the creators of the children’s show have great tools for teaching kids how to read — like an upcoming augmented reality app called Big Bird’s Words.

10 January 2013

Software

Well, That’s Insulting: This Technology Wants You To Read Less

Time was “tl;dr” was the battle cry of lazy internet jackasses, people with no attention span who nevertheless found the energy and wherewithal to complain about the length of any digital piece of writing that dared to be longer than a few sentences. Today, at CES, tl;dr is an irritating new “innovation”.

3 January 2013

Geek Out

How To Read A Book Every Single Day Of The Year

Of all the terrible New Year resolutions that will have been made this week, reading more is one that is harder to achieve than most people think. But with a slew of reading tech available, perhaps now is the best time ever to churn through the pages like never before.

28 December 2012

Gadgets

How Much Do Americans Read?

New research from Pew Internet says that ebook readership is up, and overall we own more tablets and ereaders. That’s not all that surprising, really. Still, here’s a look at how America reads.

28 November 2012

Science

Monster Machines: An Artificial Retina That Reads For The Blind

The advent of cochlear implants in the 1970s and ocular implants in the early 2000s revolutionised hearing and vision loss treatment by circumventing damaged organs with digital prostheses that directly stimulated neural pathways. But these devices have been poor substitutes for the real thing. That is, until now.

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