Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Welcome to my blog about library-related items. My name is Carla Lamontagne and I am currently a student at SIAST taking the Library and Information Technology course.
Libaries and books are two of my favourite things and learning more about them is thrilling even at the archaic age of 51!
Yesterday, when I was driving home from classes and listening to CBC radio as my usual habit is, the radio announcer began to describe something related to ebooks. A company out of the Netherlands has developed an iPad app that lets you share your marginal notes on e-books with other people and allow you to see what they wrote as well.
To do this you simply highlight a passage in the e-book, tap on it and you both leave a message related to that part and read what others wrote about it.
Joep Kuijper, the Dutch co-founder of Openmargin, feels that for e-books to be successful, they have to break away from the features of the printed book.
Well that's all for now and here is a quote about libraries-
"A library should be the ONLY place that you should judge a book by its cover!"
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