Sentences with phrase «down of digital library»

An article for Mainichi.jp on the ups and down of digital library lending in Japan demonstrated some interesting parallels to what readers in other countries have faced when trying to shift into a digital lending mindset.

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Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

The Digital Editions reader is a bare - bones, stripped - down version of Adobe's standard Reader product (eg, it has no collaboration features) and is operated with simple controls that are optimised for basic reading tasks such as page turning, scrolling, changing the size of typefaces, and organising ebooks into a «library» for easy storage and retrieval.

Overdrive is one of the largest technology companies that lays down the infrastructure for libraries to loan out digital books.

When it comes right down to it, there are many elderly people who simply can't visit the library as much as they used to and digital allows them to borrow and read in the comfort of their own home.

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

The second main element is an Overdrive shortcut, that takes you to the Sony website with a stripped down version of the digital library lending service.

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

Select a move from the 250 - strong digital library and settle down in front of the 55 - inch TV in the media room?

It's a slow week for Nintendo fans looking to beef up their digital libraries, with Last Resort's bullet hell mayhem raining down on Switch, followed by Of Mice and Sand's Mad Max inspired dash through dusty desert dunes.

Now if only Canada Law Book would create a digital version of that journal (and of the Canadian Business Law Journal), I wouldn't need to walk down to our library and hunt for the print copy (it wasn't on the shelf... [more]

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