Tag Archives: nook

Appropriating the word “archive”

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Ben Bromley

Gmail uses the word “archive” to describe the action of moving mail out of your inbox and into the “All Mail” folder.  Barnes and Noble, on their new nook ebook reader, uses the word “archive” to actually mean delete!  When … Continue reading →

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Nook, Project Gutenberg, and Distributed Proofreading

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Ben Bromley

I got a Barnes and Noble nook, which is an ebook reader, for Christmas.  So far, I’ve only loaded it up with free ebooks from Project Gutenberg.  Project Gutenberg is a project whose goal is to digitize out of copyright … Continue reading →

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