ebooks

=Electronic Books=

General Information Online Textbooks "Open Educational Resources" DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem) Kindle Other Devices/Software

Also see Digital/Electronic Text for online sources of text.

Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project (Free online books and translations) http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/index.htm

GENERAL INFORMATION
Basic Format Information - Download Formats http://www.bookshare.org/web/AboutFormats.html

Bookshare.org http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html “Bookshare.org dramatically increases the accessibility of books for people with visual or other print disabilities.” The welcome page of their site is an article called “Bookshare.org Library Now Free to All U.S. Students with Qualifying Disabilities”

Digital Talking Books http://aim.cast.org/resources/formatandtech/tech/dtbs This has general information, but focuses on the DAISY standard, which is used by many

Supported_etext's Bookmarks http://delicious.com/Supported_etext

Online Textbooks "Open Educational Resources"
MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm "MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community."

Open Textbook Library (U Minnesota) http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

The Orange Grove http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/home.do

BC Campus - Open Ed http://open.bccampus.ca/

Open STAX College https://openstaxcollege.org/

C.R.A.P. Test: Evaluating Research Sources (pdf) https://libraries.mercer.edu/research-tools-help/citation-tools-help/images/PrintableCRAPtest.pdf

DAISY (Digital Accessible Information SYstem)
DAISY http://www.daisy.org/ “The DAISY Consortium was formed … by talking book libraries to lead the worldwide transition from analog to Digital Talking Books. … Members of the Consortium actively promote the DAISY Standard for Digital Talking Books because it promises to revolutionize the reading experience for people who have reading disabilities. Specifically, the Consortium's vision is that all published information is available to people with print disabilities, at the same time and at no greater cost, in an accessible, feature-rich, navigable format.”

An Overview of the DAISY Format http://www.bookshare.org/web/SupportDaisy.html

DAISY Readers [commercial products] http://sales.freedomscientific.com/category.aspx?categoryID=40

AMIS - Adaptive Multimedia Information System http://amis.sourceforge.net/ “AMIS is free of charge, open source DAISY book playback software. [It] is a part of the DAISY for All (DFA) project, whose goal it is to bring DAISY talking book technology to persons with disabilities in developing countries.”

DAISY for All (DFA) Project http://www.daisy-for-all.org/


 * KINDLE**

Kindle: Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device [commercial product] http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA

Kindle….Or Is It Just Kindling http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2008/08/portfolio_0805

Opinion: Why Amazon's Kindle is revolutionary http://www.macworld.com/article/61186/2007/11/kindle.html?t=206

Kindle: First Impressions http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/19/kindle-first-impressions/

Here Comes Kindle 2.0 http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/08/here_comes_kind.html

Oprah Endorses Amazon.com's Kindle http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/handheld/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211600532 This article also describes some differences between the Kindle and Sony’s e-reader.

(VIDEO) The Amazing Kindle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKUKQ7QqOHw

Kindle Help (Feedbooks) - //also see other sources of e-text above// http://www.feedbooks.com/mobile/kindle

**OTHER DEVICES**/SOFTWARE
List of e-book readers [Wikipedia] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e-book_readers

Microsoft Reader http://www.microsoft.com/Reader/default.mspx You download the free reader and then you must activate it (which is also free) which allows you to read copy-protected books.

E-Reader.com http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm You can download e–reader software (some free) from this site for a variety of devices. They also have e-books, mostly for sale.

Iduna DAIsy Reader (IDAIR) http://sourceforge.net/projects/idair/ A freeware, platform independant, daisy reader

Sony Readers [commercial products] http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&categoryId=8198552921644523779