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Obras de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer –Tomo Primero is a collection of stories in Spanish available with recording and text (both plan and PDF). It was produced by Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse that has a lot more audio/text stories in English in its Lit2Go project. MP3 recordings can be downloaded individually,but nice iTunes interface . . . →Read More:Spanish read and listen material:Obras de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Update for June 2007:The website got reorganised and the link is gone. Fortunately,it was archived by WaybackMachine) It is quite frustrating how often a good material hides so deep in a random website that it can only be found by total accident. Such seems to be the case with Suspense,no suspenso. From . . . →Read More:Free spanish e-book for intermediate learners There is a fight brewing between David Rothman of TeleRead and Bill Janssen of Plucker fame. The point of contention (as I understand the issue) is what would be good format to produce e-books in. Bill’s position is that any format that is not already accepted (specifically not html) is a lock-in and a disadvantage, . . . →Read More:On open e-book standards and whether translating to Esperanto will bring more readers? I was listening to the Trying to Learn Spanish podcast and in its 11th episode somebody mentioned an interesting e-book (Thirteen Senses by Victor Villaseñor) that has parallel English and Spanish text and allows to quickly switch between them. I like the idea of bilingual books,so I went hunting for it. The book is . . . →Read More:Spanish/English bilingual e-book is available free via Overdrive David Rothman of the TeleRead fame has written a good background article on the e-books for the Innovate –journal of online education (free registration required). While David’s articles at his blog are frequent and in-depth,any one of them is too tactical for a good overview. The article at the Innovate is a good . . . →Read More:Good overview of e-books –especially for distance education Philips recently had a Simplicity event,where they showcased a number of concept products that may or may not make it into the real world in the future. To go along with the event,Philips also setup a voting board for a number of discussion topics. One of the topics currently under discussion is whether . . . →Read More:E-book discussion at the Philips’Simplicity forums [This article also appears in a slightly edited form as a TeleRead entry] Ever tried learning a foreign language? Noticed how the books you could read were often boring,and the books you wanted to read were just that bit too hard to understand? Wished,you could have a quick translation of a . . . →Read More:How e-books could revolutionize language-learning I have 100+ blog and search feeds that I keep track of in my online world. A couple of them are general techie feeds that many other people subscribe to as well. Most,however,are very specialised in topic and theme they discuss. I guess I am one of those people that helps to wag . . . →Read More:Of Cabbages,Kings and e-books | ||||
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