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Save Water-Damaged Books, Docs, and Photos by Putting Them in the Freezer [MacGyver Tip]

Next time you drop a book in the bath or end up with an otherwise water-damaged periodical, document, or photograph, reader pearce.kilgour recommends a simple solution: Put it in the freezer . Photo by dno1967 . Ever drop a book in the tub? Don't despair, you can save it. Put it into a plastic bag (not vacuum seal) and place in the freezer.
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Score Free AudioBooks at BooksShouldBeFree [Audio Books]

You can find quite a few free audiobooks online but they're frequently scattered all over. Save yourself the run around by checking out the thousands of free audiobooks cataloged at BookShouldBeFree. BooksShouldBeFree houses thousands of books in the public domain, available as both MP3s and as iTunes format audiobooks.
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BookRenter Rents You Textbooks on the Cheap [Textbooks]

BookRenter is a solution to the problem of buying books at inflated prices and selling them back for pennies on the dollar to your college books store. Rent your books for a fraction of the retail price. Click on the image above for a closer look. BookRenter lets you rent a book for as long as 125 days—the average semester length—or as little as 30.
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Penguin’s Incredible Vision of Books on the iPad Doesn’t Look Anything Like Books [Ipad]

This is what digital books from Penguin—one the mega-publishers—will be like on the iPad. Children's books that are games, interactive anatomy books, and an augmented reality intergalactic GPS system. This is the future we've been waiting to see.
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Get Noticed And Grow Your Business With MyTemplateBox

The Internet is filled with useful resources for business owners and especially for web designers and developers. From free icon sets to CSS templates , and from web design inspiration to stock images, websites like these have everything one may need. There are a number of tools, useful pieces of advice, and free stock resources available for anyone to grow their business or grow as a web designer. In this post we’re going to look over one website in particular that is dedicated to providing a variety of free resources to its users, completely free of charge. We’ll also look into how MyTemplateBox, and other websites like it, can help get you become recognized in the design world and find more work
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Steve Jobs to Collaborate on Authorized Biography [RUMOR]

Apple hasn’t officially commented yet, but according to the New York Times , Steve Jobs may finally cooperate on an authorized biography. Other biographers have attempted to tell Mr. Jobs’s life story without his express involvement or even consent, prompting him to respond by yanking books by the same publishers from Apple stores. Now two sources have confirmed to the Times that former Time magazine managing editor Walter Isaacson will get Jobs’s cooperation in producing an authorized biography of the Apple CEO. Isaacson is the author of two other best-selling biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin
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Why Tilt Your Head When You Can Bend Your Vision? [Glasses]

Reading while flat on your back's difficult. You need to either prop up your head or hold the book awkwardly above your face. Why go through that when you can use these glasses to "bend your vision" and remain supine? Sold by Hammacher Schlemmer , the Supine Reading Glasses use "two optical-quality glass prisms that bend your vision 90º" so that you can be even lazier for a mere $50
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Why Tilt Your Head When You Can Bend Your Vision? [Glasses]

Reading while flat on your back's difficult. You need to either prop up your head or hold the book awkwardly above your face. Why go through that when you can use these glasses to "bend your vision" and remain supine?
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Apple said to be using FairPlay DRM for iBookstore

Well, it looks like anyone hoping that books on Apple's iBookstore would be as DRM-free as music is on iTunes may be in for a bit of disappointment, as the Los Angeles Times is now reporting that Apple will be making its own FairPlay digital rights management available to any book publishers that wish to use it. Of course, that shouldn't come as a huge surprise considering that Apple still uses FairPlay for movies and TV shows sold on iTunes -- not to mention apps -- and it even still technically supports it for music as well, although it's pretty safe to assume Apple won't be going back down that road anytime soon. For its part, Apple is unsurprisingly staying mum on the matter, but March is fast approaching, so we should know for sure soon enough. Apple said to be using FairPlay DRM for iBookstore originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:18:00 EST.
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Publishers Tell Google and Their Ebook Plans to Get Bent [Rumor]

The vision of ebooks Google has presented to publishers: allowing people to print copies, cut and paste portions, and paying publishers 63 percent of the revenue. The vision the publishers presented in return: Go eff yourself . That's right, Google's finally getting around to opening an ebook store too—called Google Editions , and it's been in the works for a while —the idea being that people will be able to read the books on any internet-connected device. What's incredible is how the Times says negotiations are now proceeding.
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