Oh hey, the Kindle app for OS X is out. It’s free, but you have to buy the books, of course.

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Amazon Kindle App for Mac OS X [Kindle]

Oh hey, the Kindle app for OS X is out.

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Amazon Kindle App for Mac OS X [Kindle]

Oh hey, the Kindle app for OS X is out. It’s free, but you have to buy the books, of course.

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Amazon Kindle App for Mac OS X [Kindle]

It’s easy to rip your CDs and turn them into easily stored digital files: You pop in a CD, click a few buttons, done. Now try ripping a book into a digital format. Struggling

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The Secret to "Ripping" Your Books [Memory Forever]

It’s easy to rip your CDs and turn them into easily stored digital files: You pop in a CD, click a few buttons, done. Now try ripping a book into a digital format. Struggling

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The Secret to "Ripping" Your Books [Memory Forever]

Ten years ago, self-publishing was a bit embarassing, it was like you couldn’t get a traditional publisher interested so you just lumped along to somewhere you knew they’d have you. But with a bit of perspective on the phenomenon,…

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Self-Publishing Sites: Five of the Best compared

Apple’s pushing out a few more scraps of info about the iPad in conjunction with the launch of pre-orders . One of the quirkier details is that what was previously known as the mute switch on the iPad — similar to the one on the iPhone — is now known as the “screen rotation lock” on Apple’s website.

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iPad mute switch magicked into a ’screen rotation lock’ overnight, a flurry of other tidbits emerge

As specumalated in yesterday’s Giz Explains , Barnes & Noble is reportedly coming out with an iPad version of their ebook app, which will, interestingly, include B&N’s bookstore. Really ? More??

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The Barnes & Noble eReader iPad App Is On the Way (But Will Apple Maim It?) [Apple]

We’ve heard of the book of the film, but the book of the video game? Yes that exists.

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Publishers Random House to make Books out of Video Games

This is what digital books from Penguin—one the mega-publishers—will be like on the iPad. Children’s books that are games, interactive anatomy books, and an augmented reality intergalactic GPS system. This is the future we’ve been waiting to see.

The excitement over the iPad? It’s this precisely kind of stuff that people are wetting themselves over, little slices of our tablet dreams. What is a book anymore, in this format?

The ePub format that’ll be the vessel of choice for ebooks sold in the iBooks store is designed to translate traditional books to a digital format. Which is why, Penguin Books CEO John Makinson says that “for the time being at least we’ll be creating a lot of our digital content as applications for sales in app stores in HTML, rather than as ebooks. The definition of a book itself, as you can see, is up for grabs.”

It’s been expected that the preferred form of newspapers and magazines on the iPad will be apps, given their dynamic content—both in terms of being constantly refreshed, and their desire for video and interactive elements—that’s not particularly suited to the ePub format being sold through iBooks. But Penguin’s decision to pursue books as applications possibly foreshadows a really interesting split for book publishers as well: Sell a book or sell an app? Which could have some interesting implications for Amazon and their contracts with book publishers as well.

Somehow, things just managed to get even more complicated. But Penguin thinking beyond the book is exciting enough that I don’t really care. [PaidContent]

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Penguin’s Incredible Vision of Books on the iPad Doesn’t Look Anything Like Books [Ipad]

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Flower Fairy – Lavender (Kitchen) By GaelSong. Buy new: $13.95. Related posts: The Dance Fairies Complete Set, Books 1-7: Bethany the Ballet Fairy, Jade the Disco Fairy, Rebecca the Rock ‘N’ Roll Fairy, Tasha the Tap Dance Fairy, …

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Flower Fairy – Lavender (Kitchen)

No one likes getting stuck in traffic, but some roadblocks are better than others. A few of the best: an exceptionally cute string of ducklings; an ice cream truck with a flat tire; a stunning spread of 800 LED-equipped books.

Earlier this week, the books blocked traffic on Water Street in Brooklyn, New York. They were installed by the Spanish design team Luzinterruptus to promote reading, though I’d imagine in reality they just promoted a lot of confused gawking.

The designers explained:

we want literature to seize the streets and become the conqueror of public spaces, freely offering to those who walk by a space free of traffic which for a few hours of the night will succumb to the modest power of the written word.

The line between enticing people to read and forcing them to do so by physically impeding their travel is pretty thin here, but the idea is pretty spectacular nonetheless. [Designboom]

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Reading while flat on your back’s difficult. You need to either prop up your head or hold the book awkwardly above your face. Why go through that when you can use these glasses to “bend your vision” and remain supine?

Sold by Hammacher Schlemmer, the Supine Reading Glasses use “two optical-quality glass prisms that bend your vision 90º” so that you can be even lazier for a mere $50. [Hammacher via CrunchGear via Fashionably Geek]

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Why Tilt Your Head When You Can Bend Your Vision? [Glasses]