Tag Archives: reading

Eye Cells Made with Ink-Jet Printer | MIT Technology Review

Posted on by

The ability to print retinal cells could lead to new therapies for retinal disorders such as macular degeneration…Researchers at the University of Cambridge used a standard ink-jet printer to form layers of two types of cells taken from the retinas of rats, and showed that the process did not compromise the cells’ health or ability to survive and grow in culture. Ink-jet printing has been used to deposit cells before, but this is the first time cells from an adult animal’s central nervous system have been printed.

Read more: Eye Cells Made with Ink-Jet Printer | MIT Technology Review.

Readworthy: Books & Publishing, Music & Film

Posted on by

Books & Publishing

Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone voted UK’s favourite children’s book | theguardian.co.uk and The Best YA Novel of All Time bracket game: And the winner is… | EW. From mid-November Harry Potter Stamps Coming to USPS | BookRiot

Music & Film

How Braille Was Invented | Gizmodo

Posted on by

Braille Alphabte

Braille was invented by a nineteenth century man named Louis Braille, who was completely blind.

Braille’s story starts when he was three years old. He was playing in his father’s shop in Coupvray, France, and somehow managed to injure his eye. Though he was offered the best medical attention available at the time, it wasn’t enough—an infection soon developed and spread to his other eye, rendering him blind in both eyes. While a tragedy for him, had this accident not happened, we wouldn’t have braille today.

There was a system of reading in place for the blind at the time, which consisted of tracing a finger along raised letters. However, this system meant that reading was painfully slow and it was difficult to discerning by touch the relatively complex letters of the alphabet. As a result, many people struggled to master the embossed letter system.

Read the rest of the story: How Braille Was Invented | Gizmodo

This Video Game Could Revolutionize Publishing—and Reading | The Atlantic

Posted on by

When the Best Books of 2013 are listed, the most important may not make the cut. Thats because the most exciting literary innovation of the year is not a book at all, but a video game for iPad and iPhone. Device 6 is a metaphysical thriller in which the world is made almost entirely from words. Playing it is like reading a book—except, in this book, the words veer off in unexpected directions, rather than progressing in orderly fashion down the page. When Anna, the game’s protagonist, turns a corner in the narrative, the text does too, swerving off to one side at a right angle, forcing the player to rotate the screen.

More in this story about other innovative gaming apps that have a literary angle. Read: This Video Game Could Revolutionize Publishing—and Reading | Rowland Manthorpe | The Atlantic.

Can Book Clubs Thrive in the Digital Age? | Mashable

Posted on by

When most people think of book clubs, they picture intimate gatherings in living rooms or libraries. People rarely imagine a book club as a collection of GIFs, memes, fan fiction and cosplay, all of which are staples of how readers respond to media in the Internet era. But a new Tumblr blog, Reblog Book Club, wants to give the traditional book club a digital update.

While bloggers have previously hosted book clubs on Tumblr, Reblog Book Club is the first book club that’s founded and moderated by Tumblr itself. Rachel Fershleiser, the microblogging platform’s director of literary outreach, launched the club in September as a way to engage a passionate and diverse online community, but faced challenges in organizing a discussion group.

Read more:  Can Book Clubs Thrive in the Digital Age? | Mashable

Personality-Based Book Recommendation Links

Posted on by

Best Books: 36 Reads For Every Personality On Your List | HuffPost

  • Class Clown
  • The Optimist
  • The Giver
  • The Fitness Buff
  • The Old Soul
  • The Chef To Be
  • The Introvert
  • The Extrovert
  • The Business-Oriented

The Readers: Books for Every Personality | ChaptersIndigo

  • Inside
  • The Trendsetter
  • The Foodie
  • The Rebel
  • The Man
  • The Inspired Woman
  • The News Junkie
  • The Book Clubber
  • The Geek
  • The Traditionalist

7 Books That Are Perfect For Introverts | HuffPo

Here Is The One Perfect Book For Every Single Myers-Briggs Type | HuffPo

Need to figure out your M-B type? Check out: What Myers-Briggs Personality Type Are You? | LifeHacker or the MBTI Personality Types Socioeconomic Infographic.

 

 

The Most Popular Books of All Time | Visual.ly

Posted on by

The Most Popular Books of All Time

Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

 

Books, libraries, and the changing digital landscape | Pew Research Center

Posted on by

How libraries are dealing with the changing technological environment, as well as the larger context of Americans’ reading and library habits, and what they expect from libraries in the future.

News: Books & Publishing, Music & Film

Posted on by

Books & Publishing

Music & Film

Have Your Mac Read A Book To You In Mavericks And iBooks [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac

Posted on by

Full Post

Have Your Mac Read A Book To You In Mavericks And iBooks [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac

For those of you who might want to listen to a book via iBooks, one option is to load an iBook on your iPhone or iPad and turn on VoiceOver.

That can change the way your iOS device works, though, so it can be tricky to the uninitiated.

Now that iBooks is on Mavericks, however, you have another option: get your Mac to read your iBook to you.

If you’ve upgraded to Mavericks (and you should, it’s free and optimized for older machines), you have a copy of iBooks on your Mac. Launch it with a double click to the iBooks icon in the Dock or the Applications folder, and then double click one of your iBooks to open it.

Click your mouse in front of where you’d like your MAc to start reading to you, and then head up to the Edit menu. Select the Speech option in the menu, and then choose “Start Speaking.” Your Mac will read to you in the voice that’s chosen in the System Preferences Dictation & Speech preference pane.

Your Mac will keep reading the book until you choose Stop Speaking in the same Edit > Speech menu, though it won’t turn pages when it gets to a new page. If you want to follow along while it reads (a great option for folks with print or other reading disabilities), you’ll need to click the arrow keys or swipe along your trackpad as you go.

If you just want to have your Mac read a selection of text to you, simply click and drag to highlight that section, and then choose Start Speaking from the Edit menu, or right-click and choose Start Speaking from the More option in the contextual menu.

via Have Your Mac Read A Book To You In Mavericks And iBooks [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac.