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New York Times Bestsellers: November 17, 2024

Linda Reimer

All titles can be requested/checked out through the library.

If you’d like to go the traditional route to request a title on this list and drop by the library, or give us a call – please do!

Our telephone number is: 607-936-3713

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New York Times Bestseller lists are shared via blog post on Sundays. And the next NYT blog post will be posted on Sunday, November 17, 2024.

THE BESTSELLERS

FICTION

1. THE GREY WOLF  by Louise Penny: The 19th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Shifting alliances complicate the frenzied pursuit of a sinister threat. 

2. IN TOO DEEP by Lee Child and Andrew Child: The 29th book in the Jack Reacher series. Reacher wakes up in a precarious position with no memory of how he got there. 

3. THE BOYFRIEND by Freida McFadden: A series of recent deaths causes Sydney Shaw to become suspicious of the handsome doctor she started dating. 

4. THE WAITING by Michael Connelly: The sixth book in the Ballard and Bosch series. Bosch’s daughter, Maddie, becomes a new volunteer on the cold case unit. 

5. FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros: Violet Sorrengail is urged by the commanding general, who also is her mother, to become a candidate for the elite dragon riders. 

6. THRONE OF SECRETS by Kerri Maniscalco: The second book in the Prince of Sin series. As danger grows, the Prince of Gluttony and a journalist turn to each other. 

7. THE WOMEN by Kristin Hannah: In 1965, a nursing student follows her brother to serve during the Vietnam War and returns to a divided America. 

8. THE HOUSEMAID by Freida McFadden: Troubles surface when a woman looking to make a fresh start takes a job in the home of the Winchesters. 

9. THE BLUE HOUR by Paula Hawkins: After a discovery is made in a London art gallery, a woman living alone on an island that once was the home of a famous artist gets a visitor. 

10. COUNTING MIRACLES by Nicholas Sparks: A man in search of the father he never knew encounters a single mom and rumors circulate of the nearby appearance of a white deer. 

11. IRON FLAME by Rebecca Yarros: The second book in the Empyrean series. Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training might require her to betray the man she loves. 

12. A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES by Sarah J. Maas: After killing a wolf in the woods, Feyre is taken from her home and placed inside the world of the Fae. 

13. THE STRIKER by Ana Huang: A former prima ballerina gets close to a controversial and well-known footballer whom she must train over the summer. 

14. THE HOUSEMAID’S SECRET by Freida McFadden: The second book in the Housemaid series. The sound of crying and the appearance of blood portend misdeeds. 

15. LIGHTS OUT by Navessa Allen: As Aly and Josh live out their dark fantasies, someone with sinister intentions impinges on them. 

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NON-FICTION

1. MELANIA by Melania Trump: The former first lady describes her work as a fashion model, marriage to Donald Trump and time in the White House. 

2. FRAMED by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey: Our criminal justice system viewed through the struggles of 10 wrongfully convicted people to achieve exoneration. 

3. WAR by Bob Woodward: The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist looks at our contentious time through battles in Ukraine and the Middle East and for the American presidency. 

4. BE READY WHEN THE LUCK HAPPENS by Ina Garten: A memoir by the cookbook author and Food Network host known as the Barefoot Contessa. 

5. REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell: Through a series of stories, Gladwell explicates the causes of various kinds of epidemics. 

6. FROM HERE TO THE GREAT UNKNOWN by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough: Presley’s memoir, completed by her daughter, explores her relationships and challenges. 

7. THE MESSAGE by Ta-Nehisi Coates: The author of “Between the World and Me” travels to three locations to uncover the dissonance between the realities on the ground and the narratives shaped about them. 

8. THE ANXIOUS GENERATION by Jonathan Haidt: A co-author of “The Coddling of the American Mind” looks at the mental health impacts that a phone-based life has on children. 

9. CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard: The conservative commentator evaluates the legacies of American presidents. 

10. PATRIOT by Alexei Navalny: A posthumously published memoir by the late Russian political opposition leader and political prisoner who began writing this after his near-fatal poisoning in 2020. 

11. BROTHERS by Alex Van Halen: The drummer of the iconic rock band Van Halen shares stories about his partnership in life and music with his late brother Edward. 

12. HILLBILLY ELEGY by J.D. Vance: The Yale Law School graduate and 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood. 

13. AMERICAN HEROES by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann with Tim Malloy: A collection of stories of soldiers who served in conflicts overseas. 

14. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE by Bessel van der Kolk: How trauma affects the body and mind, and innovative treatments for recovery. 

15. NEXUS by Yuval Noah Harari: The author of “Sapiens” delves into how societies and political systems have used information and gives a warning about artificial intelligence. 

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Have a great Sunday!

Linda

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THE CATALOGS:

Catalog 1: StarCat

StarCat is the catalog of physical materials including print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. StarCat is available to all patrons of all public libraries in the Southern Tier Library System*

Starcat can be found online at: https://starcat.stls.org/

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Catalog 2: The Digital Catalog

The Digital Catalog (and its companion app Libby) offers all Southern Tier Library System member library patrons access to eBooks, eAudiobooks & eMagazines via a lending model known in Library-ese as “one copy/one user;” that library speak means that eBooks & eAudiobooks found in The Digital Catalog/Libby are like print books found on library shelves, only one patron can check out a copy of a title at a time.

Exception: Magazines found in the digital catalog are available via a different lending model known as simultaneous access. And that fancy library speak means that magazines are available for all patrons to check out at the same time, i.e. if you and all your family and friends wish to read the latest digital edition of Newsweek, all of you can check out the e version of the magazine and read it at the same time.

The Digital Catalog/Libby checkout limit is 5 titles a time.

The Digital Catalog is found online at: https://stls.overdrive.com/

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Catalog 3: Hoopla

The Hoopla Digital Catalog (and its companion app, also called Hoopla) offers Southeast Steuben County Library patrons access to a second digital catalog with an on-demand lending model. In library speak, this lending model, like The Digital Catalog/Libby’s magazine lending model, is known as “simultaneous access.” The difference is, the Hoopla catalog offers access to more formats: eBooks, eAudiobooks, eComics, digital albums, TV shows & movies – and all items, in all those formats, are available  for patrons to checkout immediately. The Hoopla check out limit is ten titles per month.

Hoopla Formats: All Hoopla content can be accessed on a computer or mobile device, and TV shows and movies can be accessed on computers, mobile devices, smart TVs and media streaming players, i.e. Roku or  Apple TV.

The Hoopla Catalog is found online at: https://www.hoopladigital.com/

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*The Southern Tier Library System includes the public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler & Allegheny counties.

Daily Digital & Print Suggested Reads: Friday, June 16, 2017

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor:

A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance to lose his dream forever.

What happened in Weep two hundred years ago to cut it off from the rest of the world? What exactly did the Godslayer slay that went by the name of god? And what is the mysterious problem he now seeks help in solving?

The answers await in Weep, but so do more mysteries—including the blue-skinned goddess who appears in Lazlo’s dreams. How did he dream her before he knew she existed? and if all the gods are dead, why does she seem so real?

In this sweeping and breathtaking new novel by National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor, author of the New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, the shadow of the past is as real as the ghosts who haunt the citadel of murdered gods. Fall into a mythical world of dread and wonder, moths and nightmares, love and carnage.

Here’s a link to the checkout/request page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2546790

And our print book suggested read for the day is:

The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published.

The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating the lives of the men and women who have influenced on our world.

William McDonald, The Times’ obituary editor who was recently featured in the award-winning documentary Obit, selected 320 of the most important and influential obits from the newspaper’s archives. In chapters like “Stage and Screen,” “Titans of Business,” “The Notorious,” “Scientists and Healers,” “Athletes,” and “American Leaders,” the entries include a wide variety of newsmakers from the last century and a half, including Annie Oakley, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Marilyn Monroe, Coco Chanel, Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson and Prince.

You can request the book by clicking on the following link to StarCat:

https://goo.gl/EOH5PH

You can also request items by calling the library at 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended titles in print or media and digital formats.

Our Digital suggestion for today is the e-book:

thorn

A Thorn Among the Lilies by Michael Hiebert:

In Michael Hiebert’s haunting and powerful novel, a long-ago tragedy echoes through small-town Alabama as one woman tries to track down a serial killer.

Detective Leah Teal is privy to most of the secrets in her hometown of Alvin, but there are always surprises to be had. Like the day she agrees to take her daughter, Caroline, to see a psychic for a reading. The psychic hones in on Leah instead, hinting at a string of gruesome killings and insisting that she intervene to prevent more deaths.

When you go looking for trouble, you never know how much you’ll find. Sure enough, the psychic’s scant clues lead Leah to a cold case from six years ago, when a young woman was found shot to death, her eyelids sewn shut. As Leah digs deeper into old files, a second unsolved case surfaces with the same grisly pattern. While her shrewd young son, Abe, observes from the sidelines, Leah races to prevent another horrific murder, unaware of just how deep the roots of evil can go.

Taut, suspenseful, and rich in Southern atmosphere, A Thorn Among the Lilies is a mesmerizing novel of loss and vengeance, and the lengths some will go to out of loyalty and love.

Here’s a link to the checkout page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2074046

And the physical item for today is a print book. And, in a slight departure from the usual, this book is actually a children’s book. It is on the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 list.

Here’s the link to the New York Times article on the best illustrated books for kids for the year:

And here’s is the suggested print book for today, taken from that list of New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016.

freedom-in-congo-square

Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie:

Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human’s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans’ Congo Square was truly freedom’s heart.

Mondays, there were hogs to slop,

mules to train, and logs to chop.

Slavery was no ways fair.

Six more days to Congo Square.

As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when at least for half a day they were briefly able to congregate in Congo Square in New Orleans. Here they were free to set up an open market, sing, dance, and play music. They were free to forget their cares, their struggles, and their oppression. This story chronicles slaves’ duties each day, from chopping logs on Mondays to baking bread on Wednesdays to plucking hens on Saturday, and builds to the freedom of Sundays and the special experience of an afternoon spent in Congo Square. This book will have a forward from Freddi Williams Evans (freddievans.com), a historian and Congo Square expert, as well as a glossary of terms with pronunciations and definitions.

AWARDS:

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016

A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016: Nonfiction

Starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and The Horn Book Magazine

Here’s a link to the request page in StarCat:

https://goo.gl/cDbzTJ

Or by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc. http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

Daily Print & Digital Suggested Reads: Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Linda Reimer

Hi everyone, here are our suggested daily recommended reads in both print and digital formats.

E-Book Suggested Read:

Bunkhouse

The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland by Dan Barry:

With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.

In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disability and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than thirty years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse—until state social workers, local journalists, and one tenacious labor lawyer helped these men achieve freedom.

Drawing on exhaustive interviews, Dan Barry dives deeply into the lives of the men, recording their memories of suffering, loneliness and fleeting joy, as well as the undying hope they maintained despite their traumatic circumstances. Barry explores how a small Iowa town remained oblivious to the plight of these men, analyzes the many causes for such profound and chronic negligence, and lays out the impact of the men’s dramatic court case, which has spurred advocates—including President Obama—to push for just pay and improved working conditions for people living with disabilities.

A luminous work of social justice, told with compassion and compelling detail, The Boys in the Bunkhouse is more than just inspired storytelling. It is a clarion call for a vigilance that ensures inclusion and dignity for all.

Here’s a link to the description page in the Digital Catalog:

https://stls.overdrive.com/media/2360690

Print Book Suggested Read:

Beast

Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide by Charles Foster:

To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles Foster mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing and memoir, and ultimately presents an inquiry into the human experience in our world, carried out by exploring the full range of the life around us.

This title is one of the New York Times summer reading suggestions for this year. Here’s a link to the New York Times summer reading recommendations article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/books/12-new-books-were-reading-this-summer-and-6-not-so-new.html?_r=0

You can request the book by clicking on the following link to StarCat:

http://goo.gl/sM1mMa

Or by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.

Have a great day!

Linda, SSCL

 

Online Catalog Links:

StarCat: The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc.  http://starcat.stls.org/

The Digital Catalog: The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos: https://stls.overdrive.com/

Freegal Music Service: This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day: http://stlsny.freegalmusic.com/

Zinio: Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available: https://www.rbdigital.com/stlschemungcony

About Library Mobile Apps:

You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist you.

New York Times To Offer Cheaper Digital Subscriptions & Link To Wall Mossberg’s Annual Spring Laptop Buyers Guide

Linda Reimer

New York Times To Offer Cheaper Digital Subscriptions: The New York Times released information to the press today that indicates they will be offering cheaper niche subscriptions to New York Times digital content sometime later this year. The Times spokesman wouldn’t offer specific information regarding what New York Times material would be available at a cheaper price but it is believed that the pricing will be for articles within categories; for example all cooking articles or all tech articles might be offered for a cheaper price as compared to price the Times charges for access to all content on their site.

The price the New York Times currently charges for a digital subscription actually varies depending upon the device you use to access the content. Access to the Times website and content via a smartphone app costs $15 per month, access to the Times site and a content via a tablet app costs $20 per month and full digital access to Times content for all your devices currently costs $35 per month. So one would assume that the niche access would cost less than $15 per month but we’ll just have to wait and see on that point because the Times isn’t saying just yet!

And I for one would be interested in being able to pay a cheaper price to access digital New York Times content. The library has a subscription to the New York Times so you can read it for free at the library (you can even read it for free on an iPad at the library!).

However, when I am at home I frequently like to read articles found on the New York Times website and although right now there is a work-around for their 10-free-articles-and-you-must-pay-for–a-subscription-to-read-more rule – you simply clear your browser history by pressing the Ctrl, Shift and Delete keys (on a PC) and then you’ll be able to read ten more articles for free – I don’t imagine that work-around will work forever though… And although I don’t mind paying to read well written articles I personally find a $15 monthly fee to be an expensive one when the Times has until relatively recently allowed anyone to read all the articles on their site for free. And honestly I don’t have time to read all the articles on the Times site everyday– if I could pay say $7.00 a month to read all the tech stories, all the headlines stories and perhaps 20 other stories from any category I chose each month – that I wouldn’t mind paying $7 for that access but for $15 a month – I’ll read the Times at the library.

The paidContent article I came across on this subject is titled “NYT says new products to be profitable by late 2014” and can be accessed via the following link:
http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/25/nyt-says-new-products-to-be-profitable-by-late-2014/

And here’s the link to the Subscription page on the New York Times website that shows the various digital tiers you can subscribe to:

http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/account/purchases/subscriptions-and-purchases.html#purchasesq01

Link To Wall Mossberg’s Annual Spring Laptop Buyers Guide: Walt Mossberg, the Personal Technology Columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has put forth his annual Spring Laptop Buying Guide video. And basically what he says about buying a laptop right now is two-fold:

  1. If you can wait to buy a laptop – wait until fall to do so because right now prices are rather high for touch screen Windows 8 computers
  2.  If you can’t wait to buy a laptop – buy a Windows 8 touchscreen computer or, if you prefer a non-touch screen computer consider buying a Mac instead of a non-touchscreen Windows 8 PC (the non-touchscreen Windows 8 PCs are cheaper than the touchscreen versions over all)

And I wholeheartedly agree with his assessment about Windows 8 – Windows 8 is most user friendly if you buy a touchscreen computer to use – it is much more cumbersome if you try to use it on a non-touchscreen computer. And Macs are very good machines so if you want no part whatsoever of a touchscreen computer you might consider buying a Mac.

Here’s the link to the article titled “Mossberg’s Annual Spring Laptop Buyer’s Guide:”

http://live.wsj.com/video/mossberg-annual-spring-laptop-buyer-guide/D6BE6C47-FE64-4272-9549-BF39217F7BC1.html

Have a great day!

Linda R.

References

Mossberg, Walt. (2013, May 1). Mossberg’s Annual Spring Laptop Buyer’s Guide. Wall Street Journal. Online.

Roberts, Jeff John. (2013, May 25). NYT says new products to be profitable by late 2014. paidContent. Online.

 

The Rise Of Group Subscriptions Or Accessing Television Subscription Content You Don’t Pay For & And Rdio Vdio Streaming Service Debuts

Linda Reimer

The Rise Of Group Subscriptions Or Accessing Television Subscription Content You Don’t Pay: The New York Times featured a cool article over the weekend which chronicles a growing trend – the growing number of people who access paid television content by using the cable subscription of a friend or relative so they don’t have to pay for the content. It seems an increasing number of people are accessing paid television shows and movies by accessing cable accounts online or via apps through their tablets or smartphones and then logging into their cable accounts with the log in information of a friend or relative. This new trend seems to be the most popular way for Cord Nevers. The term Cord Nevers referring to young adults that have grown up and accessed television shows and movies both online and by their parents or some other family members’ cable subscriptions and never had to pay for that content – and now they don’t want to so they are essentially getting accessing their favorite television shows and movies by a work-around logging into the HBO, Time Warner or other cable vendors subscription accounts with someone else’s login information.  

Consider this example that is relayed in the article – the HBO television series Game of Thrones is in the midst of its third season. And episodes of the series can be streamed for free from the smartphone and tablet HBO app and also through the HBO website. And the only thing a person needs to stream the episodes is someone’s’ cable subscription login information – it doesn’t have to be theirs. Having the login information in hand can allow five or six members of the same family to watch episodes of Game of Thrones, or any other HBO content, on demand and when they want to! The only stipulation is that two people cannot be logged in and watching the same television episode at the same time.

This is an interesting trend as it shows how the traditional cable TV bundled channel subscription package business model is walking down the road to obsolesce.

Here’s the link to the New York Times article which is titled No TV? No Subscription? No Problem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/business/streaming-sites-and-the-rise-of-shared-accounts.html?ref=technology

And Rdio Vdio Streaming Service Debuts: The company behind the Rdio streaming music service has just introduced a new video streaming service called Vdio. Unlike Rdio, which is a subscription music service, the new Vdio service allows you to buy or rent streaming videos. And currently Vdio is only available to Rdio Unlimited subscribers who can watch the Vdio videos through a web browser or if they have an Apple device through the Apple app – there isn’t yet a Vdio app for Android smartphones and tablets.

And as I’ve already gotten up on my soapbox on for the above section on the New York Times article and gone on about how the traditional cable TV bundled channel business model is changing in our 24-7-365-Internet connected world – I won’t do it again today!

Sufficient to say the new Vdio streaming videos service is another example of how the traditional way people watch movies and television shows.

Billboard offers an article with more in-depth information on this new streaming video service via the following link:

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/1555894/rdio-launches-vdio-new-tv-and-film-marketplace-updated

Have a great day!

Linda R

References

Dredge, Stuart. (2013, April 4). Vdio streaming TV and film service goes live in the US and UK. The Guardian. Online.

Wortham, Jenna. (2013, April 6). No TV? No Subscription? No Problem. New York Times. Online. 

Link To Cool Article On Used E-Books

Linda Reimer

Here’s a link to a cool article titled Reselling E-Books and the One Penny Problem that focuses on the possibility of Amazon and Apple selling used e-books – from the New York Times tech guru David Pogue

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/reselling-e-books-and-the-one-penny-problem/

And here’s a link to the Owners’ Rights Initiative website – their logo is “You bought it. You own it. You have a right to re-sell it.” And the American Library Association is, not surprisingly, one of the members of the group. And the organization of course focuses on the fact although you can own printed books; albums on vinyl and CD and videos on DVD and you can’t own the very same titles in the digital format…

 http://ownersrightsinitiative.org/

Have a great evening!

Linda R.

 

 

Off The Tech Topic Posting

Linda Reimer

I came a cross a neat article today that has nothing what-so-ever to do with technology except perhaps for the fact that I read it in the online version of the New York Times.

The article is actually an interview with Herman Wouk the 97 year old author who wrote, among other popular works, The Winds of War, War and Remembrance and Marjorie Morningstar.

And Mr. Wouk has a new book out! The book is called the Lawgiver and it will be on the library’s next book order.

And that Mr. Wouk at age 97 has a new book is cool!

And I hope that I am as spry as he is when I get to be 97 – fingers crossed of course!

Here’s the link to the New York Times interview titled At 97, He Has a Book (or Two) Left in Him:

http://goo.gl/C1OF7

Linda R.