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29 Dec 2013, 8:08 am
David Rothman gives kudos to the latest version of the Voice Dream text-to-speech app that can now play audiobooks. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 9:41 am
This is the last article David Rothman's current series mapping out a path for planners of America's digital libraries. [read post]
30 Nov 2013, 12:11 pm
David Rothman's commentary focuses on how the Digital Public Library of America is still on track to be a mostly academic creature despite the P word in its name. [read post]
26 Oct 2013, 7:46 pm
A new, expert and insightful investigatory report by David Rothman focuses on the new Kindle Fire HDXes. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 11:02 am
David Rothman reports on the world's first all-digital public library system - a groundbreaking new book-less library in Texas. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 10:40 am
David Rothman advocates the position that family literacy and the related recreational reading count endlessly, whether books are paper and ink or swarms of electrons. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 10:25 am
David Rothman reviews the positive and negative outcomes of the “Library Everywhere” project in Uganda. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 2:06 pm
David Rothman's review of the newest Kindle Paperwhite E Ink reader from Amazon highlights that the device is still missing text to speech - among the very features Jeff Bezos touted when he unveiled the second Kindle in 2009. [read post]
14 Sep 2013, 3:03 pm
David Rothman's commentary proposes that the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) should turn itself into the Digital Academic Library of America or something similar while encouraging public libraries to establish their own system, ideally through COSLA, a group of state library administrators. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 3:00 pm
David Rothman brings much needed attention to free ePub books, licensed under Creative Commons, offering free downloads that include transcripts of original content, such this one, that he highlights from the Veterans History Project Oral Histories. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 2:28 pm
David Rothman makes a case that the time has come for a coherent national strategy to help speed up digitization of library systems like Miami’s and use the efficiencies of e-books and other digital items to squeeze more out of tax dollars—while also increasing the total amount of money for libraries and content. [read post]
11 Aug 2013, 11:11 am by Steve Kalar
Image of the “Underwood” Deviled Ham logo from http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1182/5160192097_ac439114c3_z.jpgImage of the Honorable Harry Pregerson from http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RMsV9W_GMwk/TrSDMpMgcZI/AAAAAAAAADA/NBPeRWBtK5M/s640/david+rothman+and+judge+pregerson.jpgSteven Kalar, Federal Public Defender, Northern District of California. [read post]
30 Jul 2013, 10:40 am by Schachtman
More recently, David Allison and Mark Cope, two public health researchers described[2] white-hat bias as a prevalent cognitive bias in how research is reported and interpreted. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 2:02 pm
David Rothman says that at $9.99 is it worth every penny. [read post]
21 Jul 2013, 12:13 pm
David Rothman follows up on his review of the Voice Dream TTS e-book reader which can also read Web pages aloud, by highlighting the High Contrast add-on for Google's Chrome Web browser. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 5:09 pm
David Rothman's proposed FAQ includes suggested wording for an ALA resolution on the National Digital Library Endowment. [read post]
30 Jun 2013, 5:06 pm
David Rothman continues to expand upon the seminal foundation he has built with his critical advocacy for American libraries to do more to meet the digital content needs not just of K-12 students but also of their parents and other Americans. [read post]