E-Readers Unpicking formats and devices 'How to climb over the garden wall‘ Dick Moore MooreAnswers Ltd

E Reading As defined in the OED e-reader noun a device or application to facilitate or enhance the reading of electronic material. e-Book Pronunciation:/ˈiːbʊk/ noun an electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a computer or a specifically designed handheld device.

Lessons from practice Newcastle University subscribes to the ebook library The library has a set of ebook readers for students to borrow the Sony PRS505 and publish a FAQ on their use

From the Library FAQ on e-readers part 1 Library FAQ: Can I download an e-book from EBL and NetLibrary using a cluster computer? Some e-books downloaded from our Library collections contain Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection to prevent the downloaded e-book from being shared with others. To ensure that the downloaded e-books are not 'locked' into one computer, you will be asked to download Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software. The rights to use the e-books are then assigned to you through your Adobe ID. Care is needed as ADE only allows you to activate a maximum of 6 physical devices to download to (this includes e- readers, pcs and laptops). Downloading items from these collections from cluster pcs is therefore not recommended.

From the library FAQ part 2 FAQ How do I transfer e-books onto the reader? You can download free e-books from other websites on your own computer, then transfer to the Reader using a hi-speed USB connection. You should not purchase personal e-books or download the Library e-book collections for use on a Library e- Reader as the Digital Rights Management (DRM) software means that you will not be able to subsequently transfer them to other e-readers. You can download copyright free e-books from many websites, as indicated on this list. Not all will work with the reader - those which do are clearly identified

A students perspective “So basically: “no downloading general e-books to library computers”, “if you download a book from EBL you can't then put it on one of the libraries e-readers ” “I find the implications of not being able to read e-books on either university cluster pcs or the university e-readers pretty horrific. Only students with their own computers are able to access e-books? Reprehensible” “I needed a book that is an e-book in our library this week. I'm going to have to go to Durham to look at it - I need photocopies of the plans to go in my thesis and I'm not allowed to print any of the e-book.”

Standards deliver features Format Filename extension DRM support Image support Table support Sound support Interactivity support Word wrap support Open standard Embedded annotation support Book- marking Video support ArchosRead er.aehYes ?No YesNo ?Yes ? DjVu.djvu ?Yes No Yes ? EPUBEPUB (IDPF).epubYes Yes/No Yes FictionBook.fb2NoYesYes/No [ No Yes ? ? HTML.htmlNoYes Yes [ NoYes No Yes Kindle.azwYes NoYes ? Microsoft Reader.litYes ?No YesNo ?Yes ? Mobipocket.prc,.mobiYes NoYes NoYes ? Multimedia EBook.exeYes ? NoYes ? eReader.pdbYes ?No YesNoYes ? Plain text.txtNo Yes No Plucker.pdbYes NoYes NoYes ? Portable Document Format.pdfYes NoYes PostScript.psNoYes ?No Yes ? ? ? Repligo.rgo ?Yes No YesNo ? TealDoc.pdbYes ?No Yes ? ? Tome Raider.tr2,.tr3Yes ?No YesNo ? ? ? Ref:

Reader Plain textPDFePubHTML Mobi- Pocket Fiction- Book (Fb2) DjVu Broadband eBook eReaderKindleWOLF Tome Raider Open eBook Amazon Kindle 2, DX Yes NoYes No YesNo Amazon KindleAmazon Kindle 3 Yes NoYes No YesNo Amazon KindleAmazon Kindle Fire Yes No YesNo Android Devices Yes NoYes NoYes Apple iOS Devices Yes NoYes NoYes Azbooka WISEreader YesNoYes No Barnes & Noble Nook Yes No YesNo Nook Color Yes No Bookeen CybookGen3, Yes No Yes COOL-ER Classic Yes No Foxit eSlick Yes No YesNo Hanlin e- Reader V3 Yes No YesNo Hanvon WISEreader Yes No iRex iLiad Yes NoYesNoYesNo Iriver Story Yes No Yes No Kobo eReader Yes No Nokia N900 Yes No Yes OLPC XO, Yes No YesNo Onyx Boox Yes No Pocketbook ° Yes No Sony Reader Yes No YesNo Viewsonic VEB612 Yes No Windows Phone 7 Yes No YesNo ….and platforms support standards Ref:

Knocking down the garden wall 1. Creating your own e-book content 3. Self publishing, 2. Getting content onto the device 4. Hacks – Book of books – Read it later – RSS newsfeeds

Creating e-books from existing content Convert content from and to different formats. Calibre – hard disk Input Formats: CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, DOC, DOCX, DJVU, EPUB, FB2, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ Output Formats: EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, HTMLZ, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ 2epub web service Input formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt. Output formats: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi

Self-publishing Publish on Amazon tools – – You can select DRM or No DRM – You can select the charging rate – Books appear in the formal bookshelf Publish on free websites – Project Guttenberg 38,000 free books in a range of formats Publish on your e-learning platform – Blackboard, D2L, Moodle

Loading content Via USB a how to Wifi and Wispernet (kindle) Use the web browser to download books Via Kindle (.AZW,.AZW1). Text (.TXT), Unprotected Mobipocket (.MOBI,.PRC) Audible: Audble (.AA,.AAX) Music: (.MP3)

Hacks Load audio books onto a kindle.mp3 books-directly-over-wifi / books-directly-over-wifi / The hybrid ebook (embeded urls) – Create a book of books (Reading list +) – Fixed content plus dynamic content – References can link to the original paper (DOI) Supported in mobi, pdf, and word

The daily me research RSS bookmarks and more Push Kindlefeeder Kindle feeder up to 12 RSS feeds and 500K in images for free sent to your kindlehttp://kindlefeeder.com/ Instant paper Book mark webpages and get them sent to your kindle for later consumption Read it later Works with Calibre and syncs content GREADER2Kindle Picks up your latest Google reader articles that have not been read and sends them to your kindle Pull Browser based conversation of RSS to get a virtual paper – Use google reader account on the browser – switch to full screen mode (press f) advance page keys work to scroll (Kindle 3)

Final thoughts “One thing about eBooks that most people haven't thought much is that eBooks are the very first thing that we're all able to have as much as we want other than air. Think about that for a moment and you realize we are in the right job.“ Michael S. Heart (1947 – 2011) Founder of project Gutenberg

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