http://raypalin.info/blog Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:02:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just canceled my print subscription to the Wall Street Journal because I found that I was most frequently reading it on my iPad. The Journal’s iPad app is one of the best I've seen and, like the iBooks and Kindle apps, it provides a truly excellent reading experience.  Many ... http://raypalin.info/blog/archives/311 USA Today’s recent story about Cushing Academy's radically new library, “School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history ‘books’?”, got me thinking about my own little library transformation. I’m happy I did it. Believing in an busy library and a broad range of services, I really had no ... http://raypalin.info/blog/archives/274 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="350" caption="kindle2"][/caption] Here's what I knew: Amazon's Kindle 2, with the ability to make any book large-print and a text-to-speech feature for some books, is a powerful new tool for school libraries attempting to serve a diverse student body. The device could certainly help meet the needs ... http://raypalin.info/blog/archives/98