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, July 10, 2024
The Best e-book Reader - Selected by Wirecutter, the shopping guide of the New York Times, July 24, 2024,
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-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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