[CALIBK12] fascinating article on the ebook

[Rob Darrow]

David - This Wall Street Journal is indeed interesting reading.  The part
that caught my eye was this:  "Think about it. Before too long, you'll be
able to create a kind of shadow version of your entire library, including
every book you've ever read -- as a child, as a teenager, as a college
student, as an adult. Every word in that library will be searchable. It is
hard to overstate the impact that this kind of shift will have on
scholarship. Entirely new forms of discovery will be possible. Imagine a
software tool that scans through the bibliographies of the 20 books you've
read on a specific topic, and comes up with the most-cited work in those
bibliographies that you haven't encountered yet."

And, the online comments on the article are even more interesting to read!

Rob
Rob Darrow, Coordinator School Libraries, Clovis Unified

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:20 PM, <calibk12-request at lists.sjsu.edu> wrote:

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> From: David loertscher <reader.david at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CALIBK12] fascinating article on the ebook
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> I think you will be very interested in the following article that was in
> the
> Wall Street Journal today:
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> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123980920727621353.html
>
> P.S. Is there anyone out there testing Kindle 2s with students?
> --
> Professor David V. Loertscher
> School of Library and Information Science
> San Jose State University
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