{"id":67,"date":"2011-10-02T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T05:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-10-02T22:41:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T05:41:36","slug":"books-are-for-browsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/2011\/10\/02\/books-are-for-browsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Books are for Browsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly the topic this week was often turning towards kindle. \u00a0The news of the new Fire tool coming hard on the heels of library lending rules continues to discourage libraries from avoiding ereaders as if they are contentless equipment.<\/p>\n<p>For a few interesting reads on ereading, ereaders and &#8216;browsing&#8217; here is a prescient sample:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bobbi Newman!\" href=\"http:\/\/librarianbyday.net\/2011\/09\/28\/public-library-ebooks-on-the-amazon-kindle-we-got-screwed\/\">http:\/\/librarianbyday.net\/2011\/09\/28\/public-library-ebooks-on-the-amazon-kindle-we-got-screwed\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon v. Apple:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/sep\/28\/kindle-fire-ipad-amazon-jeff-bezos?intcmp=239\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/sep\/28\/kindle-fire-ipad-amazon-jeff-bezos?intcmp=239<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The silk architechture:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amazonsilk.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/28\/introducing-amazon-silk\/\">http:\/\/amazonsilk.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/28\/introducing-amazon-silk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I question if I will I be adminstering any units like these at WVML. \u00a0Why not go to our web catalogue and search Kindle for the now almost 2 yr old implementation there? After almost two year \u00a0the waitlist and program support requests from users are still high for kindle.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.westvanlibrary.ca\/\">http:\/\/catalogue.westvanlibrary.ca\/<\/a> (Never mind&#8230; Holy Added Access points, Batman!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly the topic this week was often turning towards kindle. \u00a0The news of the new Fire tool coming hard on the heels of library lending rules continues to discourage libraries from avoiding ereaders as if they are contentless equipment. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/2011\/10\/02\/books-are-for-browsing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maryakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}