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An elementary school teacher shares how she downloads "books that are currently free at Amazon" and loads them on iPads for her students to read. She provides the details to know how she makes it work. The website she uses to find the free books is One Hundred Free Books. The link is http://onehundredfreebooks.com/. This site publishes names of free books across many genres including Free Fiction, Non-Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Thrillers, Young Adult, and Cooking Books. 
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"E-reading has taken America by storm, with more and more people preferring their Kindles to any other medium. We take a look at the current trends in E-Reading, including what type of people prefer e-reading, and what the best selling devices are.
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Arc90, which has released a new tool called Readlists, "a free and incredibly convenient app for collecting, sharing, and enjoying bundles of articles, poems, recipes—you name it. It’s as simple as cutting and pasting links to ordinary web pages, that are then transformed into a clean reading view, but with the power to send them as specially tailored collections: to email, to Kindles, even as ePub-standard iBooks on your iPhone and iPad devices." Create your own collections, or see what others have collected.
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"Middle school boys rated reading more valuable as an activity after two months of using an ereader, according to a study by researchers in Texas.
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With the breath of eReaders available and costs coming down what is happening in the print world? Are books becoming endangered? According to this infographic book should be with us for some time. The numbers of folks with eReaders is increasing, but many still like the "look and feel of a physical book." More information may be found in the infographic.
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"Print or digital? Adults grapple with which is the best way to read -- not only for themselves, but especially when it comes to their kids. Whether or not parents prefer print books over interactive e-books for their kids, the question is, what’s actually better for them?" However, this was not true when asking kids about the plot. Additional information is found in this post.
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Worldreader gives Kindles to students in sub-Saharan Africa. The nonprofit's new report, funded by USAID, shows that access to e-readers improved primary school students' reading skills significantly.
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I received a Kindle for my birthday, and enjoying "light reading," in addition to the dense science I read for work, I immediately loaded it with mysteries by my favorite authors. But I soon found that I had difficulty recalling the names of characters from chapter to chapter. At first, I attributed the lapses to a scary reality of getting older — but then I discovered that I didn’t have this problem when I read paperbacks.
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