Comments on: So what counts more—luxury spas or elementary school librarians? http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/so-what-counts-more-day-spas-or-elementary-school-librarians/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:52:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Harris http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/so-what-counts-more-day-spas-or-elementary-school-librarians/comment-page-1/#comment-1012705 Michael Harris Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:10:46 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/so-what-counts-more-day-spas-or-elementary-school-librarians/#comment-1012705 David, It has been good to see you back at least part time. I hope you are feeling better. I seem to have misplaced my login, so I will pass along two off-topic comments here. 1) I don't know if Amazon's product managers read Teleread, but the Whispernet sync feature seems like it may be targeted at features like those here: http://www.teleread.org/2007/12/08/brainstorming-department-ill-take-the-super-morphin-book-reader/ 2) There is a new post up at PixelQi. Mary Lou Jepsen is predicting sampling of her 10 inch screens this spring, and "high volume mass production" this summer. She predicts power consumption of 1/4 to 1/2 of standard LCD from the screens, and with PixelQi's integrated electronics, 5 times the battery life of standard LCDs. These screens also support video rate refresh. These are the next stage of the OLPC screen tech. That means that in addition to the high-rez e-paper mode, the same screen can also switch to a full color mode typical of standard LCD. She predicts: "[the screens] will be in available at comparable price points and volumes to standard LCD screens this summer." http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2009/02/02/product-freeze/ Michael Harris David,

It has been good to see you back at least part time. I hope you are feeling better. I seem to have misplaced my login, so I will pass along two off-topic comments here.

1) I don’t know if Amazon’s product managers read Teleread, but the Whispernet sync feature seems like it may be targeted at features like those here: http://www.teleread.org/2007/12/08/brainstorming-department-ill-take-the-super-morphin-book-reader/

2) There is a new post up at PixelQi. Mary Lou Jepsen is predicting sampling of her 10 inch screens this spring, and “high volume mass production” this summer. She predicts power consumption of 1/4 to 1/2 of standard LCD from the screens, and with PixelQi’s integrated electronics, 5 times the battery life of standard LCDs. These screens also support video rate refresh. These are the next stage of the OLPC screen tech. That means that in addition to the high-rez e-paper mode, the same screen can also switch to a full color mode typical of standard LCD. She predicts: “[the screens] will be in available at comparable price points and volumes to standard LCD screens this summer.”
http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2009/02/02/product-freeze/

Michael Harris

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/so-what-counts-more-day-spas-or-elementary-school-librarians/comment-page-1/#comment-1012562 David Rothman Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:32:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/so-what-counts-more-day-spas-or-elementary-school-librarians/#comment-1012562 Couldn't agree with you more, Gary--on librarians' role! If the cutbacks go ahead, it'll be most interesting to see what happens to the kids' test scores and other indications of achievement. Thanks, David Couldn’t agree with you more, Gary–on librarians’ role! If the cutbacks go ahead, it’ll be most interesting to see what happens to the kids’ test scores and other indications of achievement.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Gary Frost http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/so-what-counts-more-day-spas-or-elementary-school-librarians/comment-page-1/#comment-1012559 Gary Frost Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:28:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/14/so-what-counts-more-day-spas-or-elementary-school-librarians/#comment-1012559 Librarians, always discipline neutral, are the best advocates for both p-books and s-books (screen books). Even more important they can evolve the most efficient systems for integration of the two into a single transmission ecology. Librarians, always discipline neutral, are the best advocates for both p-books and s-books (screen books). Even more important they can evolve the most efficient systems for integration of the two into a single transmission ecology.

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