Lisa L. Spangenberg

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    • Contact
    • Policies
  • Blog: IT
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  • Teaching
    • The Writing Process
    • On Passive Voice
    • Rhetorical Figures
    • Seventeenth Century Prose Style
    • Teaching with Technology
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    • Purple Prose
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    I Love My Kindle Paperwhite

    Lisa Spangenberg / December 27, 2020

    One of the things that has been especially useful during the year of COVID-19 isolation has been my Kindle PaperWhite ereader. I was an early convert to ebooks, and not just because I…

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  • Commentary,  Culture and Society,  Scholarship

    I Need a Shredder

    Lisa Spangenberg / September 11, 2016

    It’s been just over a month since I started my digital migration. I’m making slow but steady progress on getting rid of paper. I’ve been getting digital statements where possible for several years…

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    Harry Potter and the iBooks Author

    Lisa Spangenberg / October 16, 2015

    My co-writer Michael Cohen has an interesting piece over at TidBITS on the just published “Enhanced’ edition of Rowling’s Harry Potter series. They were made with the current version of iBooks Author, and…

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  • Books,  iOS

    Meet iPhoto for iOS

    Lisa Spangenberg / December 7, 2012

    Today is the official release date for my new ePub ebook from Peachpit. Meet iPhoto for iOS is a quick introduction to using iPhoto on iOS 6.x to organize, caption, crop, rotate, edit,…

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  • Books,  Publishing

    Ebook Pricing vs Print Pricing

    Lisa Spangenberg / April 21, 2012

    It really isn’t that much cheaper to produce an ebook. The binding/printing costs are depending on the book and the binding and the numbers printed somewhere around 1 to 3 bucks a book,…

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    Michael Cohen on The Tech Night Owl

    Lisa Spangenberg / April 16, 2012

    April 14, 2012 — Michael E. Cohen talks about the DOJ suit against Apple and five publishers, Amazon, and Apple’s iBooks Author app.

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  • Commentary,  Security

    Warning Added to Library Borrowed Kindle Ebooks

    Lisa Spangenberg / March 21, 2012

    As previously noted, you can borrows ebooks from the library for the Kindle reader or Kindle apps. You can even cleverly extend the due date on a borrowed Kindle ebook. So it’s about…

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  • Commentary,  Software

    iPad for Book Lovers

    Lisa Spangenberg / March 4, 2012

    Peachpit has posted an article by me about my love for books, and the iPad: Lisa L. Spangenberg, coauthor of The iPad 2 Project Book, readily confesses to being nuts about books. Like…

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  • Software

    Stanza Free Reader for iOS Updated

    Lisa Spangenberg / November 11, 2011

    Stanza, the free ereader for iOS was broken, quite badly, by the iOS 5 update. Since Lexicycle was purchased by Amazon, Stanza had remained moribound (the previous update to Stanza for iOS was…

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    How to Extend The Due Date of your Kindle Library Book

    Lisa Spangenberg / October 26, 2011

    Via Librarian by Day Bobbi Newman (who tweets as @librarianbyday): It is pretty easy to “extend” the due date of the library ebook you check out to your kindle, just turn your wireless…

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