{"id":3550,"date":"2011-03-24T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=3550"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:09:08","slug":"e-readers-and-tablets-the-hype-and-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/24\/e-readers-and-tablets-the-hype-and-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Readers and Tablets: The Hype and the Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border:0 none\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2436\/3967667938_63ef12ecc5_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"304\" \/><strong><\/strong>On Wednesday, April 6, our Spring 2011 Technology on Your Own Terms series will wrap up with <strong>E-Readers and Tablets: The Hype and the Facts<\/strong> from 11am-3pm in WML305.<\/p>\n<p>Nook, Sony, Kindle, iPad, Galaxy&#8230;\u00a0 There are so many e-readers and  tablet computers available that it\u2019s getting harder to know which  product to choose to fill a certain need.\u00a0 Want some answers?\u00a0 Drop in  any time during our four hour showcase of e-readers and tablet computers  at the Weinberg Memorial Library. <strong>Best Buy<\/strong> will have many products on  display and provide knowledgeable staff to answer your questions.\u00a0 You  will learn about the Weinberg Memorial Library e-books available for  download as well as where you can find free e-books and how to convert  regular documents to ereader formats.\u00a0 Light refreshments will be  served. <em> (With representatives from Best Buy, the Weinberg Memorial Library, and the CTLE)<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 6, our Spring 2011 Technology on Your Own Terms series will wrap up with E-Readers and Tablets: The Hype and the Facts from 11am-3pm in WML305. Nook, Sony, Kindle, iPad, Galaxy&#8230;\u00a0 There are so many e-readers and tablet computers available that it\u2019s getting harder to know which product to choose to fill [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[138,259,491,496],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-ebooks","tag-ipad","tag-tablets","tag-technology-on-your-own-terms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5820,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}