eReaders

=eReaders=

Two years ago I received a Kindle eReader for Mother's Day. I didn't ask for one and didn't think that I wanted on, but I screamed with excitement and scared my kids a little! I really did not anticipate loving it as much as I do! Instead of having a stack of books by my bedside or in my suitcase on holidays, I now have a neat and tidy little eReader that holds hundreds of books. What do I like most about it? Probably the fact that I can increase the font size! No reading glasses needed here! It is also light and my wrists and arms do not fall asleep reading large books!

Recently Neil Campbell School purchased 3 Sony wifi eReaders. We choose Sony because Kindle is not supported by the Canadian public libraries. We also purchased the Kobo, but in the end we decided on the Sony.

The students are LOVING these eReaders. The MYRCA books are readily available to borrow from the public library for free!! This means I no longer have to purchase extra copies of the popular books, only to be stuck with them the following year!

The students have become really self-sufficient and can download books from the library on their own now. These eReaders are wifi, which means that they can do this from the comfort of their homes or the couch in the library! They particularily enjoy the stylus that comes with the machines. They can click on any word that they do not understand and it gives them the definition! Where were these when I was a kid!

Below are the instructions that they helped me type up for downloading and removing books to a Sony eReader.

Turn on eReader Click on ‘Applications’ Click on Settings Wireless Network Settings Wifi Settings Scan – wifi networks RETSD – Guest Connect Login – Welcome to the Cisco wireless network – User name – wlan-guest Password – (changes every two weeks) Type in user and password press submit or go Click on the HOME button (little house on the eReader) Click on Applications Public Library Search for the Winnipeg Public Library. Once you do this once, you will automatically have it on your saved searches. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Click Winnipeg Library <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Click eLibraries Manitoba / Click eBooks (hard to see) click arrow on the right (the whole box) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Open <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">You can now search for your eBooks. Click on search. Click available now (if you want the books now or library collection if you are willing to wait) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Search for the name of your book or the author. Once you find a book click on ‘add to eCart’. Click Proceed to checkout. Go up top and click on ‘my eCart’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Proceed to checkout again. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Now you have to login with your library card. Click on which library you usually use. (ie. Wpg. Public) Now type in your library card and PIN. Login <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Scroll to the bottom and click on Confirm check out. (you may have to hit this button twice) <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Click on download once!! <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Hit the HOME button on the bottom of ereader
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<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Your books are ready to read!!!! <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">It automatically saves your bookmarks. It does not on a Kindle. I like this feature. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Go to Bookshelves. Press down on the cover. It will prompt you to a new screen. You will be given choices. Click Delete. <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">How to Read a Book <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Turn on eReader <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">We do not have a lot of books on our readers, so they usually appear as soon as we turn them on. At home, I have a lot. In this case, I click on Bookshelves.
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