Via ars Technica : Adobe’s ebook reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe in plain Text. Doesn’t this go against a basic rule of librarianship?
October 2014
Boston Archivists Demand Patience
A copper box sealed for over 113 years inside the head of a piece of statuary, a lion, at the Old State House in Boston has finally been opened.
Inside… there was a surprise book with a red cover…but we don’t know the title or contents. Historians deem the book and other contents of the box too fragile to be quickly examined. They will need to be examined in a temperature and pressure controlled environment.
The society first learned of the possible existence of the time capsule three years ago from the great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Rogers, a craftsman who had worked on renovations to the building and was believed to have placed the box in the lion’s head and catalogued its contents. A 1901 article from The Boston Globe surfaced later, alluding to contents of a copper box “which will prove interesting when the box is opened many years hence.”
More from ABC News.
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything From Peter Morville
This is a book about everything. Or, to be precise, it explores how everything is connected from code to culture. We think we’re designing software, services, and experiences, but we’re not. We are intervening in ecosystems. Until we open our minds, we will forever repeat our mistakes. In this spirited tour of information architecture and systems thinking, Peter Morville connects the dots between authority, Buddhism, classification, synesthesia, quantum entanglement, and volleyball. In 1974 when Ted Nelson wrote “everything is deeply intertwingled,” he hoped we might realize the true potential of hypertext and cognition. This book follows naturally from that.
“Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries”
From The Digital Reader: “Adobe is gathering data on the ebooks that have been opened, which pages were read, and in what order. All of this data, including the title, publisher, and other metadata for the book is being sent to Adobe’s server in clear text…Adobe is not only logging what users are doing, they’re also sending those logs to their servers in such a way that anyone running one of the servers in between can listen in and know everything…But wait, there’s more.”
“Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries”
First kind of Kindle? Researchers at University of Leeds find what is thought to be first travel-sized library
Librarians at the University of Leeds have dusted off what is thought to be the one of first portable and travel sized library of books.
Long before books were stored on a Kindle, smartphone or tablet, the Jacobean miniature travelling library was the only way literature fans could carry a large number of books.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781378/First-kind-Kindle-Researchers-University-Leeds-thought-travel-sized-library.html#ixzz3FKj89CCt
Why adults are buzzing about YA literature
Young adult literature has become a booming business and one of the fastest growing book categories for publishers in recent years, with more than 715 million books sold in 2013 — mostly to adults. NewsHour Weekend’s Tracy Wholf reports.
Viewers respond to mandated extra reading at Florida schools
PBS viewers respond to a recent signature piece examining Florida’s new law requiring low-performing elementary schools to provide an extra hour of reading every day. Hari Sreenivasan reads your comments.
Hennepin County Library launches website, and worry, for some teen patrons
Hennepin County Library launches website, and worry, for some teen patrons
http://m.startribune.com/lifestyle/blogs/277953501.html
“We’ve had hundreds of comments,” said Turner, division manager for system services, “and have not heard any concerns from our library staff, nor patrons.” Library staffers have been able to preview the site for the past two weeks, she said, noting that it is “far more image-intensive, less tab-based and more like Pinterest.”
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