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Will DeLamater's Blog – June 2009 Archive (4)

Kindlepedia Heads to the Netherlands and the BeBook

Thanks to Pierre Gorissen from Eindhoven, Netherlands, for sharing pictures of a Kindlepedia article displayed on the screen of a BeBook ereader. The BeBook is produced by a… Continue

Added by Will DeLamater on June 24, 2009 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Kindlepedia Adds Support for Dutch Wikipedia

Good news! The Kindlepedia now supports the Dutch Wikipedia. Just insert a URL of a Wikipedia article that begins with "nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/[your topc here]" (example: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabriek ) and the Kindlepedia will return your article. Very exciting--thanks to Joshua and Derek for putting this together! Enjoy!

Added by Will DeLamater on June 18, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

eSchool News Leads with Story on Kindle DX

You know that people are paying attention when eSchool News puts a Kindle story on the front page! The article contains nothing new in terms of information about the DX and the schools that will be piloting it, but several quotes from those involved sum up the situation: The Educator: "Is this the watershed device of electronic text readers we've been waiting for? Or is it just another evolutionary step on the way to that revolutionary device?"… Continue

Added by Will DeLamater on June 8, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Is Kindle the perfect learning appliance?

The devices that we use to access content are getting smaller and smaller. One could make the case that the iPod Touch and the iPhone are in fact small pocket computers, and one wouldn't be far from the truth. (The coming update to the iPhone operating system promises to allow, among other things, the ability to cut and paste text.) In the past couple of years, another type of small computer has made a splash in the marketplace, the Amazon Kindle and its raft of look-alike, e-ink and… Continue

Added by Will DeLamater on June 5, 2009 at 11:01am — No Comments