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Getting Paper Books Into Your Ereader or Tablet

Posted on 01/30/2013 by | Technology | Comments

Technology | Your LifeAs an avid mobile device user who loves paper books of all kinds, there are a few books I own that I’ve always wished were in electronic form to peruse on my ereader or tablet. I could break out my $49 office supply store flatbed scanner and get busy scanning into a PDF utility like Adobe Acrobat Pro, but that would entail many, many hours of tedious pressing of book spreads onto glass. And then there would be the task …

These Are The Droids We’re Looking For

Posted on 03/4/2011 by | Technology | Comments

TechnologySome co-workers and I gathered in a conference room at AARP Headquarters to watch Steve Jobs unveil the new version of Apple’s iPad 2. While the conversation naturally circled around all the new features, and how some of us were going to buy on the first day, our chatter came to the topic of competition pushing back.  As if on cue, Nielsen announced the next day that the market share of Google’s popular Android operating system for smart phones had …