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• Freda program reads ePub, TXT and HTML on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 machines

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  The new Freda program reads nonDRMed ePub, TXT and HTML and lets you customize fonts and colors. Check out the details and get the free download here .A special version exists for Windows Mobile 6 users who encounter stability problems.  (Via MobileRead ). Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. ...
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• E-book hardware bargains for the holidays: Share your finds, whenever you spot ‘em

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  Tell other TeleRead community members when you spot e-book-related products steeply discounted. Some holiday bargains—although I didn’t spot an e-book one—are already online . Black Friday is officially the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Cyber Monday is the first Monday after BF. Related: Internetnews ...
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• eSlick Foxit reader gets new firmware with ePub and eReader

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  eSlick’s Foxit reader will now be able to read at least nonDRMed ePub and eReader (PDB), not just PDF and TXT. I’m not sure about the ability in regard to DRMed books: perhaps someone can enlighten us. I’m skeptical. Beyond more formats, Foxit now includes the ability to organize your book into folders—and ...
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• Droid smartphone launch: Better for e-booking than the iPhone, especially as more apps show up?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  The Motorola Droid smartphone is out now, complete with a keyboard and a 3.7-inch touch screen, which is slightly bigger than the iPhone’s 3.5 incher and has much better resolution. Remember, Roger Sperberg is pretty excited about resolution in the new Android devices . But how about e-book software for ...
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• Bookless libraries?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  When does a library cease to be a library? This was the central point of a debate about the fate of educational institutions’ brick-and-mortar libraries at the 2009 Educause Conference in Denver, as reported by Inside Higher Ed . Despite the objections of “a minority of very loud faculty members,” (Suzanne ...
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• Rupert Murdoch knocks the Kindle as a news reader—even though the Wall Street Journal is now on the K machine

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  News Corporation gets only $6-%6.50 of the %15 that Kindle subscribers pay for the Wall Street Journal each month , and News CEO Rupert Murdoch is POed. He’s looking forward to “half a dozen readers” in time, with deals possible for them—presumably with Murdoch’s people enjoying full access to subscriber ...
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• Big monitor, big monitor, talk about eyestrain, my girls got er

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 628
  Were a Mac office, and we rotate the computers around when we get new ones. So imagine my delight when I got my weird 15" G4 monitor magically replaced with my boss 24" iMac! w00t!... except that the giant size really spaces me out. Help! Ive seen this question , but I dont think thats the same thing. The computer ...
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• $89 e-reader can display zillions of books from Google, Feedbooks, Manybooks and Gutenberg—aided by Calibre

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  Just in case you haven’t noticed, eBookwise is selling the model 1150 for just $89.95 and shipping (as little as $10 in the U.S.) . It includes 64Mb of internal memory. You don’t have as many DRMed commercial books to choose from as with more modern readers, and the display is an LCD, not E Ink. But thanks to ...
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• Transforming a Workspace From Desktop to Laptop Computing

  
  WebWorkerDaily — Authority: 684
  Last spring, I bought my first Mac laptop to replace my aging Windows laptop. Mac fans may say the result was predictable: My shiny new MacBook quickly became my primary computer while my desktop PC gathered dust. That change left me with one problem I hadn’t anticipated, though. My office wouldn’t function as ...
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• Sony updates eBook Library software for PRS-300, PRS-505, PRS-600, Reader Touch Edition and Pocket Edition

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  Sony has updated eBook Library software to version 3.0.01 to provide for Windows 7 support for e-book management and transfer to Reader models PRS-300, PRS-505, PRS-600, the Reader Touch Edition and the Pocket Edition. The update is supposed to crash less often. EU users can download here , U.S. users here . ...
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• When Kindle e-reading apps show up on better handheld displays, will the iPhone seem quite so hot?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  The iPhone/iPod Touch have had the advantage of being the sole handheld devices with an e-reader that could access Amazon’s e-list. That will soon change. The Windows UMPC will be able to run the Kindle e-reader. Also, Amazon will move the software to new Android and Maemo devices with significantly higher ...
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• Lean and Ergonomics: A Good Match

  
  Lean Insider — Authority: 120
  In case you missed it (and I almost did), October was National Ergonomics Month. This designation was created six years ago by something called the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) with the stated purpose of focusing “on promoting human factors/ergonomics to corporate executives, ...
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• Two weeks with an Astak 5”: Ergonomic Factors

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  I have spent the last two weeks reading e-books on the Astak, and am ready to give my first impressions. The Screen First of all, the 800×600-resolution screen. I love the screen. Of course, it is probably the same screen that any non-touch-sensitive e-ink reader has, but compared to the Sony I tested before ...
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• The 7500 LCD Arm by Innovative Office Products

  
  arezzo1.com — Authority: 143
  www.LCDarms.com The 7500 LCD Arm from Innovative Office Products is a height-adjustable mount for your flat panel monitor. This product suspends your screen weightlessly above your desk. Simply grab the screen and move to where it is needed. Free up desk space, improve your workspace ergonomics, and also increase the ...
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• Kindle/Nook ‘smackdown’ from Jim Fallows of the Atlantic

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  Looking for an “exhaustive” Kindle/Nook comparison? Jim Fallows of The Atlantic served up some thoughts last week. He starts by passing on musing from a B&N-related source , then goes on to his own analysis . Excerpt: “Nook and Kindle aren’t grossly different cost-wise. So for me, the only reason ...
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• Listen to Your Body

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 134
  Neanderthal cave men and women had tremendous physical prowess. They excelled in all kinds of physical activities. We, on the other hand, do not do everything — we are selective and specialise. We choose and pick our jobs, and this means we repeat some tasks, day after day. As a result, certain muscles and joints in ...
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• Double your reading speed in five days? So claim the people behind the QuickReader iPhone app

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  With all those zillions of public domain books out there—not to mention more recent e-books—what if you could double your reading speed in five days? The QuickReader iPhone and Touch app, promoted in a just-issued news release , claims to be able to do that. Is this the reading equivalent of, er, certain ...
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• WordPlayer Art of War, top free e-book app in the Android Market, can read ePub: Other apps discussed

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 665
  E-books, alas, are not among the most popular apps in the Android Market . Let’s hope that changes. Get ready for an Android invasion over the next year—-not just phones with that operating system, but also tablets and other devices. Android has attracted its share of gung-ho fans , with Windows Mobile ...
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• Add Some Stretching to Your Work Routine

  
  Ian's Messy Desk — Authority: 419
  Muscular tension and pain caused by repetitive work activities is common. Try these simple exercises right at your workstation to relax your muscles and energize your spirit. Do these stretches often throughout the day to prevent injury, not just when you are tired and stiff. Head tilt – Place your right hand on ...
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• Pentax’s entry-level K-x DSLR receives glowing review

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 162
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