Library Stuff

Advertising Age – “Like all those low-priced laptops that are coming out on the market lately? Thank One Laptop Per Child and its founder Nicholas Negroponte. And if history repeats, prices will go much, much lower.”

Library Journal – “If a major theme has emerged among the reactions to Google’s sweeping $125 million settlement with publishers and authors over its library scan plan, it is cautious optimism, tempered by uncertainty.”

Academic Librarian – “The Google Books settlement seems like very good news to me.”

I think Google got away cheap with the settlement.

Paper Cuts Blog – “The Green Bible,” printed on eco-friendly recycled paper, with cotton/linen cover and soy-based ink, makes the Word of God not only accessible (it’s the New Revised Standard Version, not the sonorous King James) but exceptionally biodegradable.”

ReadWriteWeb – “Popular Firefox addon Read It Later has just introduced an updated version of their plugin which adds new functionality to Google Reader. With the new extension, which now works in both Firefox and IE, you can now get through your RSS feeds faster by checking off the items you want to read later in more detail.”

I use InstaPaper for doing this.