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The purpose of this group is to discuss and share information about the Amazon Kindle. Discuss and share your school or library's Kindle implementation advice or issues here.
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We are introducing the Kindle Touch to our 7th grade inclusion students in one week. From a list of summer reading text-to speech books, they will choose titles they want on their Kindles and after 2…Continue
Started by Kitty Shadman May 16, 2012.
Student use 5 Replies
Hi - I have a couple of very different questions both relating to student use. I am at the point where I am about to add titles to the Kindles. How have people handled the prevention of kids…Continue
Started by Melinda Miller. Last reply by Victoria Holcomb Apr 29, 2012.
Two accounts on a Kindle Fire? 4 Replies
Do you ever have a question and you think you know the answer but you have to ask it out loud or in an email to a group? I have one. I have a Kindle Fire that circulates to employees. The account on…Continue
Started by Judy Hauser. Last reply by Judy Hauser Feb 14, 2012.
Checking out Kindles - License Agreement? 4 Replies
I am about ready to let employees check out a Kindle and a Nook Touch each with books I've purchased from our budget. Now, someone has mentioned to me that although the books are copyright protected…Continue
Tags: Touch, Kindle, Nook, agreement, license
Started by Judy Hauser. Last reply by Martha Hickson Jul 1, 2011.
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Comment by Debbie Martin on March 7, 2012 at 12:17pm -
Hi Jennifer & all. We add our Kindles & Nooks to Destiny. I catalog the device first (including the serial #). I catalog each device individually - due to different authors/titles going on each device. In the copy portion of the record I add the price. For the call # I put something like JENKINS KINDLE 1. I also add a note that says what parts/pieces the device has. The schools then check them out through Destiny. I know one school has a liability form that must be signed. To track the authors & titles of the books, I then add a 700 tag (added author) and 740 tag (added title) for each author & title on that device. Most of our schools have Nooks & for the couple that have Kindles, I'm not sure how that arrangement works with Amazon. Debbie Martin
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Comment by Jennifer Alevy on March 6, 2012 at 11:44pm -
Hi, I have a few management questions. My school is purchasing 60 Kindle Touch's. 1. How do you keep track of them? I was thinking about barcoding them in Destiny. 2. How do you keep track of the books you put on each? I was thinking of adding to the MARC description field the book titles on each unit. 3. How do you manage them from the Amazon end, do you put up to 6 Kindles on each account? I think organizing them in increments of 6 is the way to go. Any other advice, tips, etc. are welcome :-)
Thank you,
Jenn the Librarian
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Comment by Elizabeth Roberts on February 9, 2011 at 11:06pm -
Interesting developments in Kindles. I just saw this annoncment about adding real page numbers to kindle books. There has always been a lot of debate about this so we will see where it goes from here: http://www.kindlepost.com/2011/02/early-preview-of-free-software-up...
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