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• Color e-reader due by the end of 2010 from Packard Bell: Touch screen(s)?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Here’s the French , and here’s the Google translation of the ActuaLitte article by Nicolas Gary. The Google translate-bot jumbled the item, but I wonder if double screens and touch capabilities might be included: “… ebook reader will be presented in late 2010, rather oriented color screens—and ...
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• Ergonomic Office Chair – One Of The Most Popular Modern Office Accessories

  
  World News — Authority: 169
  Ergonomic office chairs are becoming popular day by day. An eight hours a day is a normal working duration for most employees. All this time these employees sit in their chairs doing work. An ergonomic office chair saves the back, neck and shoulders of the office worker from bearing undue load. Although ergonomic ...
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• Forrester Research’s 10 ebook/ereader predictions for 2010

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Paid Content has an article from Forrester Research with the following predictions. In the article each prediction is accompanied by a narrative explanation: E-ink will lose its near-100% market share Deal-screen mobile phones and netbooks will eat into ereader demand Apps will make non-reading devices more ebook ...
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• Ergonomic Office Chair – A Popular Modern Office Furniture Item

  
  Homebusiness-Facts.com — Authority: 150
  Ergonomic office chairs are becoming popular day by day. An eight hours a day is a normal working duration for most employees. All this time these employees sit in their chairs doing work. An ergonomic office chair saves the back, neck and shoulders of the office worker from bearing undue load. Although ergonomic ...
  3 days ago

• Ergonomics 101

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 141
  Ergonomics Ergonomics – the efficiency of work.  Can we design work and procedures that are useable? Or somehow does the way we do things create more work, wasted steps, irritation, boredom or fatigue. Clearly some basic ergonomics is a basic requirement for every manager and geek in this computer world of ours. ...
  3 days ago

• 5 Tools to Prevent Laptop-Related Injuries and Eye Strain

  
  Tech - for Everyone — Authority: 127
  Folks, a reader sent me an e-mail suggesting an article idea. I found that they had pretty well written out a whole article, so I asked permission to share it with you “as is”. Aplus Computer Aid has me jumping lately, so, here it is… (I particularly like #3..)5 Tools to Prevent Laptop-Related Injuries and [...]
  4 days ago

• Get Efficient or See Employees Go Elsewhere

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 431
  Kohjinsha dual screen laptop We’re all increasingly dependent on technology.  And as much as we love our portable Blackberrys and iPods, for serious work we usually need an actual computer – a laptop at the least. The new Kohjinsha Dual Screen DZ Series is now available in Japan for ¥95,800, about $1,170 ...
  4 days ago

• Increase Your Productivity On the Go

  
  Slaw — Authority: 594
  Kohjinsha dual screen laptop We’re all increasingly dependent on technology.  And as much as we love our portable Blackberrys and iPods, for serious work we usually need an actual computer – a laptop at the least. The new Kohjinsha Dual Screen DZ Series is now available in Japan for ¥95,800, about $1,170 ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Too many books, not enough profits’: ‘On the Media’ looks at the book biz, including E

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  The On the Media public radio show looks this week at the “past, present and future of books” —a full update of an earlier show from a year ago . Among the points made: “too many books, not enough profits.” Half a million books, by one estimate, are appearing on the U.S. annually. Fueled by new ...
  5 days ago

• Will textbooks be the biggest e-reader market in five years?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  ";" alt="" /> So predicts Sarah Epps at Forrester Research . I have mixed feelings about this. Given a choice of only one portable device for students, I’d rather they get netbooks (or larger laptops) that could double as tablets. Hey, we want students to write, too, and beyond that, the current E ...
  6 days ago

• ‘Googled: The End of the World As We Know It’: New book skewers search giant

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Googled: The end of the World As We Know It —that’s a new, not-so-flattering book about the search giant, complete with anti-Google comments by some media barons. Check out Nicholson Baker’s NYT review . I haven’t read Googled yet, but get the sense that Baker is much fairer than Googled ’s author, ...
  1 week ago

• Is ‘free’ really the best price?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  A novice self-publisher posted a question on MobileRead : Are readers more likely to check out a new author if the book is available for free? He got some great replies to his question. I read them with interest, and my own immediate reaction was, ‘Oh of course, free is great, free is wonderful, who ...
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• Pixel Qi: Mass production of screens set for next month—and we’re aiming for a $100 HDTV

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  ";" alt="" /> The Pixel Qi screen, which offers both an e-book mode and the capabilities of a color LCD, is scheduled to go into production next month. Will Pixel Qi scale up without a hitch? Stay tuned. Cllick on videos—away from the arrows—for better views. Same for the photo to the left below. ...
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• Should Google Books worry publishers?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Ron Miller at Fierce Content Management has obtained a review unit of Astak’s EZReader Pocket Pro (the same one I’ve been reviewing in recent weeks) and used it to examine Google’s e-book offerings . It is not clear from the article whether he downloaded the PDF or EPUB versions of the books he chose to read. ...
  1 week ago

• How to deal with desk with sharp edges?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 642
  A desk I bought from office depot a couple of months ago has sharp edges -- not sharp enough to cut, but sharp enough to be plenty annoying if I ever touch those edges. Is there any easy and not-ugly way to deal with these?
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• Feedbooks: An easy way to get some snazzy PDF books for the Kindle 2

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Feedbooks has long had a custom PDF feature for the Sony Reader and similar machines. Well, it turns out that the Sony Reader settings work just fine for the upgraded Kindle 2 , since the screens of the two machines are the same size. You can start from there and change the font size and style. The cost? $0. ...
  1 week ago

• Two ‘musts’ for the next Kindle upgrade: ePub and optional boldfacing of all text

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Amazon’s most recent Kindle upgrade is working fine now on my Kindle 2—allowing me to read PDF files, even if I can’t  blow up the type. Amazon has also lengthened the K2’s battery life, which should help when I’m using the Kindle’s much-appreciated text to speech . What’s next? ePub ? Maybe even ...
  1 week ago

• Dangers of Automatic Windows

  
  the Human Factors Blog — Authority: 118
  R ecently I posted on some potential human factors problems caused by Toyota’s design of their floor mats . For this post, I would like to compliment Toyota on their automatic power windows. The windows can be lowered fully and automatically by one quick press on the button. However, to be raised, the lever on the ...
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• The Key to Good Writing Is Having A Good Workspace–Gear Up For Good Ergonomics

  
  A View from the Isle — Authority: 126
  What does your workspace look like? No, not the color or how many file cabinets you have, but how is your laptop or monitor positioned? What does your neck feel like at the end of the day? How about your arms, wrists, fingers? Having had my own brushes with carpal tunnel problems, not to mention a long standing back ...
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• The digital future according to ex-HarperCollin CEO Jane Friedman—featured in videos from NYU

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Here are videos of ex-HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman ’s New York University appearance (via PublishersLunch ). She’s now with Open Road , which, I’m pleased to say, will devote major resources to the publishing of backlist titles, not just new ones. Related: Ex-HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman may ...
  1 week ago

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