I am thrilled to share some exciting news: today Gale, part of Cengage Learning, officially released the new Gale AccessMyLibrary School Edition iPhone app! And yes, that is me providing the narration for the YouTube video!
Read more about the awesome new app and then go get it!
Have you wanted to try ereading but can’t afford a Kindle? If you have an Android phone (and we know an increasing number of students do), then good news: you will be able to download the free Kindle app for the Android this summer!
If you already own an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or Blackberry, you can also download the free Kindle app now. In addition, you can download the free Kindle for PC or Kindle for Mac to enjoy Kindle books on your home computer. I use the iPhone app as well as the Kindle for PC and have been delighted with the reading experience! Find out more here:
Jodi Picoult for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store via kwout
Are you a Jodi Picoult fan? What if you could access cool content for this author for just 99 cents? Check out this great app! Here is the description from the iTunes store:
The official app for Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper, House Rules, Handle With Care, and The Tenth Circle. You’ll be updated with news, tour dates, videos, excerpts, reading guides and book club suggestions, photos and much more!
About Poem Flow via kwout
As many of you know, we are HUGE poetry fans at The Unquiet Library! National Poetry Month is only six weeks away, so why not get pumped off for the celebrations by getting the free Poem Flow app for your iPod or iPhone?
The iTunes store highlights these features on their app preview page for Poem Flow:
Poem Flow puts a poem-of-the-day in the palm of your hand. Each day a new poem happens. When you turn a poem on its side, the text flows in a gentle reading animation. Poem Flow introduces you to poems you haven’t met, and lets you see (and share) old poems anew.
Experience a Poem Flow at:
Features:
• Text converts to animation with the turn of your hand.
• Motion + Text + Light = a movie that you watch to read.
• You get a new poem every day from a mix of the greatest poems in English.
• Previous poems persist, building a book on your device.
• Everyone reads the same poem on the same day creating instant, invisible community.
• Geolocation (with permission) reveals where and when a poem was last read.
• Share a Poem Flow with anyone with or without an Apple device.
• You get 20 great poems for free, including a full week of poem-of-the-day.
• Additional poems can be purchased for less than a penny a poem.
• You can learn a poem from a Poem Flow.
• The Academy of American Poets provides context for each poem and poet.
• Great for learning English, and for sharing some of the world’s most beautiful thoughts.
For more about this app, visit: http://www.poemflow.com/about
The Unquiet Library is now an official venue in the LibraryThing Local Books app for iPhone/iPod! You can read more about this cool new app and get the link to the free app in iTunes by reading this terrific post at the LibraryThing blog. You can search for our library by the name, The Unquiet Library, or by our zip code, 30115. Once you find us, you will find links to our library website, our library blog, and our library catalog! Check it out and let us know what you think!
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