Tag Archives: bookcamp

#bcto09 Elaborating on my textbooks

At BookcampTO I got a lot of attention during the Kindle, Schmindle talk when I brought up changing attitudes towards print books in higher education. The reason I gave was that I downloaded books under Creative Commons, GFDL and free-as-in-beer licenses. I’d like to give more context and a few examples of the textbooks I’ve [...]

#bcto09 on bookish communities

Image via Wikipedia Hugh McGuire is talking. He starts off with his introduction to LibriVox. It’s a project to make free audiobooks by reading public domain books aloud.

#bcto09: Kindle, Shmindle notes

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Speaker is Evan Leibovitch. He works at York and was given the mandate to make research more accessable.