Michael Koby

Over the past week or so, we looked at using technology to help you read more. Since reading helps the brain grow along with one’s vocabulary and general knowledge, reading more is an important task. Hopefully you learned a thing or two that you didn’t already know while reading the series. If you missed the series or a part of it, below you will find links to all the articles from the Get Your Reading On Series.

Introduction
DailyLit.com
Audiobooks
eBooks
eBook Readers
Social Networks for Readers

If you have questions that were not answered in the series, please feel free to leave a comment or reach me via email. I will try and answer any questions as best as I can.

Today, in our final post on using technology to further your reading, we will look at some social networks that are centered around the readers of the world. For those that are new to the idea of a “social network” just think of a social network as a country club (without that stereotypical snobbiness) that is centered around a particular concept. Website likes Facebook and MySpace are social networks to the fullest extent in that, they center around your social circle, whom you know and how. There are other social networks out there like Digg (news), Flixster (movies), and even Twitter (conversation) are all extremely social and centered around something very particular. So now that you understand what a social network is (at least in a very general sense) we can look at the two social networks centered around reading (I’m sure there are more than 2 but the two I’m looking at are the most popular). Read more »

In our last post (Get Your Reading On: eBooks), we looked at exactly what electronic books are and some of the advantages to using eBooks. We only touched on how to read electronic books by mentioning the MobiPocket Reader for PC and mobile devices. We mentioned some hardware electronic book readers but didn’t really go into too much detail. This post is going to change that. Today, we will look at electronic book readers, both software and hardware based. Read more »

Ok so let us review real quick,

• Gone over books in email & RSS… check
• Gone over audiobooks and the places that sell them… check

So now it’s all about electronic books. Electronic books are also known as “ebooks” (yea it’s that whole e is short for electronic, thing). But what is an ebook? Is it something you hold in your hand, or is it a text file that you can read on your computer? Is it both? Well it is or rather it can be all of these things. There are sites that allow you to purchase and download ebooks, we’ll get into those in a second, but let us define exactly what an ebook is.  Read more »