E- Books and E-Readers in School Libraries

E-Books and Readers

An Introduction

Electronic Books - This is a good introduction to how e-readers and e-books work. From Explain That Stuff.
Best e-book Readers of 2024 - From CNET
Best e-Book Readers of 2024 - From PC Magazine, November, 2022.
The Best e-book Reader - Selected by Wirecutter, the shopping guide of the New York Times, Nov. 2023
Comparison of e-book formats - From Wikipedia.
E-book Formats - Descriptions of a huge number of e-book formats from Mobile Read Wiki.
Digital Books and Your Rights - A checklist for readers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Feb, 2010
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library e-books - You can learn here how the e-book lending business works. This is an article by Daniel A. Gross in the New Yorker, Sept 2, 2021

e-Books in Schools and School Libraries

Libby - You might want to tell your students about Libby which is an app which can be used to download ebooks from public libraries.
What is Overdrive/ Libby E-Book Collection and How Does It Work? - This is information from the San Francisco Public Library.
E-Book Collections in High School Libraries: Factors Influencing Circulation and Usage - An article by April M. Dawkins and Karen W. Gavigan in School Library Research, Sept. 21, 2020. Students seem to prefer paper books. The authors suggest that more research is needed on this topic.
E-books in the School Library - Information about starting the use of e-books in your library. From the National Library of New Zealand.
Kindle Education: School FAQ - From Amazon.
EduKindle - A blog on the use of Kindles in education.
Lending E-Readers in the School Library: Part 1 - An article by Travis Jonker in School Library Journal, Jan. 2012.
Lending E-Readers in the School Library: Part 2 - An article by Travis Jonker in School Library Journal, Feb. 2012.
How to Delete Books from your Kindle - When you want to tidy your kindle up. This is an article by Anthony Karcz on BookRiot, January 21, 2020
Going Digital: Using e-Book Readers to Enhance the Reading Experience - A lesson plan for using e-readers with grades 2 - 4. This plan is by Lotta C. Larsen
E-reader Policies and Procedures - Samples from Libraries - Many are from public libraries but they may give you some ideas.
Book Wars: iPad and Kindle on Trial! - a clever video about the competition between paper books and ebooks. It was filmed in a Chicago school library.

School Libraries Which Use e-books

A Digital Library Spawns More Reading - An article by Shawn Maas at Edutopia, April 30, 2021. Addition of digital books at a high school library in Florida.
All of Hawaii's Public Schools are Using Sora - This page will provide school librarians with information about how this is done.

Acquisition of e-Readers and e-Books for Schools and School Libraries

How to Put Free Ebooks on your Amazon Kindle - A very useful article. August 11, 2021
Overdrive K - 12 Education - Supplier of digital content.
Sora - access to many e-books from school and public libraries from Overdrive. This can be used on lap tops, phones and tablets.
Sora and Public Library Connect - how Sora links with public libraries.
Follett e-books
Ebsco Ebooks - for schools.
Many Books - Many free older books for e-readers. Love those classics!
Eleven Places to Download Free e-Books - From Mashable.
CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries - An addendum on weeding e-books
Roll Your Own E-Books - This article from Wired tells how to convert your writings or books into an e-book format.

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