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Slides from “Survey of Current E-Readers”

I had a lot of fun putting this presentation together, and not just because it was an excuse to play with toys. It was also nice to see the PlasticLogic device up close, even though I suspect the final marketable product may be quite different from these early prototypes.
Keith and I beat pretty hard [...]

Tools of Change twitter visualization

Geeks love raw data, so I couldn’t resist a text dump of all #toc tweets that occurred during the conference.
Here’s the quick visualization I threw together (warning, it loads very slowly):

It skips any images that are broken or any that were listed as having the Twitter default icon. For some reason the raw data [...]

On TOC: Read anything on the Kindle

As part of an on-going series on exploring the hidden corners of the Kindle, a post on using an undocumented image browsing feature to read complex PDFs or image-based documents:  How to Read any Type of File on the Kindle (Almost).
Of course, going from text to scanned images is exactly backwards from the way things [...]

Recent posts to the O’Reilly TOC blog

On the O’Reilly Tools of Change blog recently:

Processing the deep backlist at the New York Times, a report from OSCON
Optimizing web content for the Kindle, using Bookworm screenshots

The latter is part of a series of Kindle articles that I’ll be putting out in the coming weeks, including those on getting inside the device’s operating system [...]