Penn State has a relatively recent pilot program going with the Sony Reader:
http://alumni.libraries.psu.edu/libtodaySony.html I think it's too early for them to have any results yet, but you might try reaching out to some of the librarians named in the article. Also, LISnews has an Electronic Publications blog you might find useful: http://lisnews.org/taxonomy/term/69?page=1 Would you mind sharing your thoughts on e-readers and why you're looking for research? For what it's worth, after evaluating a few devices for use at an academic institution, here are my top 10 e-reader wishes in no particular order: 1. Gigabytes of (expandable) storage for all documents- be they books, journal and other articles (DOC/PDF), web pages / blogs / wikis, presentations, etc... 2. The ability to tag documents 3. Annotation: A stylus to take notes on the page. 4. Multimedia: MP3's, animations, etc… 5. No DRM / filetype restrictions. 6. Long battery life, think days not hours 7. Connectivity: WiFi, USB, Bluetooth 8. Expansion: software/firmware updates, 3rd party applications 9. Robustness: Users should be able to throw this in my bag like a "real" book. 10. Search: full text in the body of the text, titles, tags, annotations, citation chaining and "more like this…" - Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mikezarro.com On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Chauncey Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > There was an essay in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday about the > Kindle. The story can be found at: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02wwln-medium-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kindle&st=cse&oref=slogin > (you might need to register to read the essay). > > I'be been getting e-books since the Rocket ebook which I really liked. I > even placed 3rd in a writing contest and have thousands of people read my > 99 > word short-short story about my worst date which involved Al Hirt and > Chicken Burgers! I have a Sony Bookreader which is thin and pretty and > powerful, but didn't have enough content (though it would handle PDFs. I > recently got a Kindle and like the author of the Times essay, find it ugly > and dislike the fragile and easily activated paging controls. What I love > about the Kindle is the Amazon content that is available. Sometimes in the > rush to list all the features of ebooks, people forget that content is > still > the driving issue behind ebooks. The good news with a Kindle is that you > can load dozens of books on the system and not have to lug their physical > versions around. > > What I miss from my Rocket E-book is backlighting. Backlighting saps the > battery, but I would rather have 4 hours with backlighting than 6 hours > without. > > Chauncey > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Fernandes, Fabio (APG) < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm looking for any research you could share that relates to the use of > > ebooks and possible user preference on its delivery format (true to text > vs. > > not). > > > > Thanks in advance for any insight or documents you can point me to. > > > > Best, > > Fabio Fernandes > > > > > > Fabio L. Fernandes > > User Experience Design Manager, CUA > > > > Cengage Learning, Digital Solutions Group > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
