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Kindle For Mac Offers Bare-Bones Desktop Reading
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Mac: Like the Windows beta, there’s no real feature in Kindle for Mac, beyond Kindle e-book syncing, that will rock your socks off. For doing some reading away from your Kindle, though, it works just fine. More »
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8:30AM Angus Kidman | If you still enjoy reading newspapers in a semi-traditional format, Google has a fairly substantial archive of older papers in scanned form that can be searched from its Google News Archives section. More »
Google News Archive Search Includes Full Scanned Papers
8:30AM Angus Kidman | If you still enjoy reading newspapers in a semi-traditional format, Google has a fairly substantial archive of older papers in scanned form that can be searched from its Google News Archives section. More »
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1:30PM Angus Kidman | It took long enough for the Kindle to hit Australian shores, but the range of e-book choices have increased rapidly in recent months. The latest development? The promise that soon you’ll be able to buy e-book readers and titles in Borders’ Australian stores. More »
E-Books Soon In Borders Australia
1:30PM Angus Kidman | It took long enough for the Kindle to hit Australian shores, but the range of e-book choices have increased rapidly in recent months. The latest development? The promise that soon you’ll be able to buy e-book readers and titles in Borders’ Australian stores. More »
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Score Free AudioBooks At BooksShouldBeFree
2:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | You can find quite a few free audiobooks online but they’re frequently scattered all over. Save yourself the run around by checking out the thousands of free audiobooks cataloged at BookShouldBeFree. More »
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Change The Background Colour In Adobe Reader For Eye-Friendly Contrast
3:30AM SandHammer | Ed. note: If you do extensive reading on a computer screen you know how quickly start black-on-white text can strain your eyes. One Lifehacker reader, tired of straining his eyes, changed the default background colour with pleasing results. More »
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12:00PM Angus Kidman | We already know Australians don’t fancy the idea of paying for newspapers online. If the latest circulation figures are any guide, we don’t fancy paying for them in print much either. More »
Print Newspapers Still Dying A Slow Death
12:00PM Angus Kidman | We already know Australians don’t fancy the idea of paying for newspapers online. If the latest circulation figures are any guide, we don’t fancy paying for them in print much either. More »
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4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Who has the time to read anymore? You do, if you make the time. It’s easier than you might think, with these tools and tips that find, recommend and format good reading anywhere you want to dive into it. More »
Top 10 Tools For Better Reading, Online And Off
4:00AM Kevin Purdy | Who has the time to read anymore? You do, if you make the time. It’s easier than you might think, with these tools and tips that find, recommend and format good reading anywhere you want to dive into it. More »
Money
8:47AM Angus Kidman | Publishers like Rupert Murdoch see the future of newspapers as charging for content online, but a recent study suggests most Australians aren’t prepared to cough up. More »
Would You Pay For A Newspaper Online?
8:47AM Angus Kidman | Publishers like Rupert Murdoch see the future of newspapers as charging for content online, but a recent study suggests most Australians aren’t prepared to cough up. More »
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Get An Instapaper Text View Of Any Web Article
2:30AM Kevin Purdy | Fan of article-saving, reader-friendly webapp Instapaper? You can now convert any article you come across on the web to Instapaper’s very clean and clear standards with the Instapaper Text bookmarklet. More »
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4:00PM Angus Kidman | Odds are good at this end of the year that you’ll get more reading done than usual. But when you’ve devoured that long-awaited tome, what should be next on your list? That’s the issue What Should I Read Next? aims to address. More »
What Should I Read Next? Picks Your Next Book
4:00PM Angus Kidman | Odds are good at this end of the year that you’ll get more reading done than usual. But when you’ve devoured that long-awaited tome, what should be next on your list? That’s the issue What Should I Read Next? aims to address. More » 