WebJunction webinar on Gadgets: Personal Electronics for your Library by Jason Griffey (author of April Library Technolgy Report on same)
- Container vs. content-now separate in a way they weren't in print world
- Can get digital content on a number of different ways-how to deliver, manage, preserve?
- Content holding but also content creation (haven't even gotten to the latter in libraries yet, much less the former)
Tablet computing (iPad, etc): instead of device input for user interfaces, (multi)touch input (how does that affect library interfaces?); very user-friendly
Competitors to iPad (all running Windows or Android)
HP Slate: 8.9" screen; runs full Windows 7 (he's not convinced because it hasn't worked in medical field; cllunkier interface but more open platform (no Apple Store approval process); NY Times reports 6" Slate running Android coming as well
In chat:
My Media Mall for content licensing and download;
issues of proprietary Apple content;
different audio, ebook formats;
how can we figure these things out if libraries can't buy them-allocate funding for Gadget Zoos, Gadget Toolbox);
Kindle readers available for desktop; text-to-speech available for public domain or copyrighted books that publishers haven't gutted;
someone said they have used "ebrary, net library, safari books, and my ilibrary on ipad" and "CourseSmart publishes textbooks on to the iPhone platform (it is a consortium of several publishers)";
Issue of needing iPhone and iPad apps for Overdrive (only mp3, not wma);
Can load non-protected epub books so can circulate Feedbooks.com or Project Gutenburg
Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/
Smashbooks: http://www.smashwords.com/
Manybooks http://manybooks.net/
No OpenOffice for iPad