Quick and easy ebooks via Readlists

Readlists

The Readlists site provides a quick and easy method for preparing an ebook from web articles for offline reading.

• Login to Readlists and simply add the URL of each of the articles you wish to compile into an ebook. 
• Add a title and description and you are ready to download the ebook directly to your device or embed on your website or blog.
• The Readlists can also be publicly shared enabling multiple editors to add to or amend any individual list. 
• The range of export options makes this a very useful tool for all platforms.

Kindle

Simple online instructions guide the user through the Send to Kindle option.The contents page displays the title of each article allowing the user to move quickly to the desired reading. Individual articles which incorporate images are reproduced in full. The normal Kindle functions of increasing text size, creating notes, finding definitions and following links are all enabled.

ePub

The ePub version presents in full colour and with full functionality but disturbingly displays the Readlist compiler at the top of each page as if they were the author. Full links are still provided to the individual articles but individual authors are not listed as they appear in the original Readlist.

Readlists are a great method for sharing a range of links for reading on any device.

Related articles:
Readlist creates ebooks from URLs
Create ebooks with Readlists

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2016 Readlists closed in July 2016

Libraries empowering customers

Travelling light

Our local library like so many other libraries has many identities and roles. Excellent services are provided to the housebound by a group of dedicated volunteers and library staff provide a variety of training for a range of technology tools, to name but two of the myriad of services provided.

The local area has many retirees with time to travel and the library has graciously provided the venue for me to present a session on Tech for Travel. The session  will cover a wide  range of tools available to the traveller in planning their journey, mobile apps to use while on the road and preservation of holiday memories.

Here is a short screencast on how to make an ebook from Wikivoyage.

Next up, preparing a Readlist book for travel purposes.
Which other web tools are you using for making ebooks?
What are your favourite travel apps?

Hooray for the sidebar

iTunes 11

For some time I have been frustrated by the changes to iTunes 11 and have really missed the functionality of the sidebar. Sometimes it just takes another person's post to point out the obvious and today I came across this great post on the iPad academy site. What I see in Windows is slightly different to the screenshots provided hence my pictures below.

First turn on the Menu Bar by selecting the drop down arrow in the top left hand corner of the screen.

Now that you have the Menu Bar showing it is simple to switch views so that the sidebar shows

Now when an iDevice is plugged it is once again easy to browse its contents through the sidebar functionality,

and the top Menu for the iDevice is also visible.