New question and answer sites seem to be popping up. The New York Times ran an article, 'The Answers Are Out There, and The New Q. and A. Dig Them Up' .
One of the new sites is Quora (find and follow your friends' questions and answers). You can have Quora check your email address book for friends using Quora. I received an email stating a friend was following my Quora activity. I haven't posted a question yet. I'll have to post something to see how this works.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Read children's books online at International Children's Digital Library. The ICDL has thousands of books in 54 languages online allowing you to browse by language, genre or age group. You are not required to register either.
"The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community."
"The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community."
Monday, March 7, 2011
goodreads challenge
Did you sign up for a reading challenge? If not, try goodreads.
71,875 people participating
Motivate yourself to read more books: Enter the 2011 Reading Challenge!
Total goal for all participants: 5,173,274 books
Average goal for all participants: 71 books
Total challenges completed: 77
534,671 of 5,173,274 (10%)
Total challenges completed: 77
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Librarian (quote)
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. (Erma Bombeck)
Friday, March 4, 2011
ebook lending clubs (an incomplete list)
From ALA Tech Source: http://www.alatechsource.org/blog/2011/02/e-book-lending-clubs.html
The article, ‘Ebook lending clubs’ gives a little background on lending ebooks and information on five lending clubs. Be sure to check out the clubs listed in this article.
The clubs/sites listed below are not included in this article. I have not borrowed from any of these clubs – this is just information not a recommendation for use.
Lendle states they are the “easiest, fastest, fairest and best way to lend and borrow Kindle books.”
BookBee http://www.bookbee.net/
“A Beginner's guide to ebooks - simple guide/comparison to device, software, format, buying and help. Info on Kindle, iPad, Nook, PC (Windows), Mac (OS X), iPhone.” This site also offers Book Ant (search for books with prices at B&N and Amazon) and an ebook exchange. I registered on BookBee to see what is offered. At the time, only four books were available, but this was a few weeks ago.
Ebook exchange http://www.ebookexchange.com/
Lend or borrow ebooks (Kindle or Nook). Complete step-by-step instructions and registration is free. I did see a spot for a $3 donation, but I’m not sure this is required.
Open Library (Internet Archive ) http://openlibrary.org/
“Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published…. Just like Wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalog. You can browse by subject, author or lists members have created. If you love books, why not help build a library?”
List of worldwide lending libraries
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Book Sphere
This is so cool!
Artist, John Marshall, created this sphere made of books. Photo by Tom Dolon. Another picture can be found here.
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