This Search Engine Lets You Search 30 Sites At Once | Fast Company

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Going to add this one to my AppShopper wish list in the hope of a future price reduction! Free meta search alternatives include metacrawler/dogpile.

Phlo is an app for iPhone, iPad ($2.99), and Mac ($3.99) that allows you to conduct a single search and get results instantly from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Pinterest, Amazon, eBay, and more.

The app syncs across devices, saving your search history, and provides autocomplete suggestions from both Google and Bing. It’s available as a browser plug-in or in the App store.

Read: This Search Engine Lets You Search 30 Sites At Once | Fast Company | business + innovation.

25 Independent Presses That Prove This Is the Golden Age of Indie Publishing | Flavorwire

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Independent publishing — that is, publishing whatever an individual or small group think is worthy of dumping their time and money into — is nothing new. From Virginia and Leonard Woolf starting up Hogarth Press to the early days of Farrar, Straus and Giroux championing now-iconic authors that other publishers wouldn’t touch, DIY publishing has long been responsible for some of our best literature.

That’s why, no matter what the latest doomsday prognostication about the future of big publishing happens to be, this is an exciting time to be a fan of literature. Among the long list of indie presses that are putting out great stuff, we’re singling out 25 that we love — but we encourage you to do some more digging of your own to discover even more great indies that are publishing great works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and more.

Read: 25 Independent Presses That Prove This Is the Golden Age of Indie Publishing | Flavorwire.

Design And Print Your Own Moleskines With Paper’s New “Book” | Co.Design

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Paper is an amazing iPad app–and one of our Innovation By Design nominees–because its team at FiftyThree cracked the code of making creation a simple, beautiful experience on tablets. There’s just one problem: Paper isn’t actually paper; it’s a screen.

Today, FiftyThree and Moleskine are revealing a solution called Book. For $40, you will be able to turn your Paper sketches into a custom Moleskine print. The 15-page, accordion-style, handmade “Book” marks the first time that the iconic Moleskine has ever allowed cover customization. It’s also a potential peek into the future strategy of FiftyThree, a company that hasn’t been shy about their plan to expand their purview into a whole suite of creative productivity apps.

Read: Design And Print Your Own Moleskines With Paper’s New “Book” | Co.Design | business + design.

World’s Oldest Jewish Prayer Book Found? Rare Text Purchased By Hobby Lobby President | HuffPost

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The identification of the very rare prayer book, dated to the ninth century, was announced Sept. 26 by Steve Green, president of the arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby. Green facilitates his family’s array of biblical texts and artifacts, the Green Collection. The text was purchased from a collector.

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Read: World’s Oldest Jewish Prayer Book Found? Rare Text Purchased By Hobby Lobby President | HuffPost.

OverDrive announces new APIs for Library Circulation | OverDrive

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Last year we introduced the initial set of OverDrive APIs that enable approved vendors to deeply integrate OverDrive-hosted catalogs and nearly 1 million digital titles with their apps and platforms. These included the ability to access catalog metadata, see availability of a title and search the library’s collection.

Today, we are excited to announce that the all-new Circulation APIs are available on the OverDrive Developer Portal. The Circulation APIs will allow approved partners to request checkouts, downloads, holds, and returns from within their own discovery interface. This means users will now be able to browse and search their library’s digital collection, see what’s available and check out a title or place a hold all without ever leaving the library OPAC.

Read: OverDrive announces new APIs for Library Circulation | OverDrive.

How will our country operate without the LOC? | MobyLives

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The country is bracing for a temporary shutdown of the Library of Congress, beginning today. The twenty-five library system will be closed to the public and researchers, according to an announcement on the site you can’t see, and all public events are canceled. The digital collections, online catalog, and “Ask A Librarian” services are temporarily suspended.

Read: How will our country operate without the LOC? | MobyLives

You may also like: Library Services Impacted by Government Shutdown | District Dispatch | ALA Washington

HarperCollins partners with Scribd for ebook subscription service | Quill & Quire

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HarperCollins has partnered with document-sharing website Scribd on a new ebook subscription service.

Dubbed “Netflix for ebooks,” subscribers pay $8.99 a month for the ability to check out an unlimited number of ebooks – up to 10 titles at time – from the Scribd catalogue, which includes backlists from HarperCollins and several small U.S. presses. The service allows readers to switch between browsers, Android, and Apple devices without losing their place.

HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray told the Associated Press that the partnership will provide the publisher with valuable data about Scribd readers. “This is going to help us make even better publishing and marketing decisions for our authors,” he says.

The international service is now available in Canada, although not all titles are accessible for download.

HarperCollins partners with Scribd for ebook subscription service | Quill & Quire

Gaming and Play in the Library: A Brief History | Information Space

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The international academic journal Library Quarterly recently published my article tracing the history of gaming in libraries back to the 1850s. You can see the entire article in the publications area of my game lab, Because Play Matters. I wanted to offer a few highlights here about how public libraries have used games over the years.

Read the full story: Gaming and Play in the Library: A Brief History | Information Space.

Top Tech Gear of 2013 [Infographic] | Finances Online™

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Facebook Is Finally Letting You Search for Old Posts | Gizmodo

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Now that Graph Search has finally rolled out to the entire Facebook world, the newest covetable feature has been bestowed onto a small subset of users. Starting today, Facebook is rolling out Graph Search for posts.

Read: Facebook Is Finally Letting You Search for Old Posts | Gizmodo

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