#reading (20 links)
- Welcome To The Cosmere: A Brandon Sanderson Reading Order Guide thequilltolive.com
- How People Read Online: New and Old Findings nngroup.com
I write margin notes while reading books. They help me keep my thoughts on record and within context. But how do I do that on a website or an ebook?
Via ttscoff.
What is required, therefore (and what is difficult to effect), is the translation of these impulses of wonder and joy at nature, into ecologically valuable patterns of behaviour. Into changed patterns of purchase, consumption, disposal, and travel. Into a shifted sense of the universal. We need, for instance, to retire our medieval vision of the skies, seas, rivers and soil as sinks of infinite capacity; free in what they give, and limitless in their capacity to absorb what we discard into them.
- Readmill Beta Invites | booktwo.org booktwo.org
Earlier this year they released a simple, beautiful iPad app for electronic reading, one of best reading experiences you can have on the platform, which connects to the Readmill service to track and store your reading. Directly connected to several free ebook stores, you can also load any of your own epub files.
Open Bookmarks wants to make sure that this experience belongs to readers: that they can save it for the future in ways that are useful to them, and share their progress and annotations in the way that they want, however and wherever they read.
- Open Bookmarks II | booktwo.org booktwo.org
Open Bookmarks is intended to educate readers as well as developers about what social reading is and why it should be open, in order to create a demand for better services.
- Readability :: Add-ons for Firefox addons.mozilla.org
Ooh, shortcut key! Worth trying just for that.
- Foyles - David Mitchell Selects... foyles.co.uk
To celebrate the publication of his eagerly anticipated new novel, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, David Mitchell makes a selection, exclusively for Foyles, of his favourite books.
A simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.
Research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs – are now becoming the norm for all age-groups.
Reading groups in Stoke Newington