{"id":76,"date":"2008-11-03T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T05:48:17","slug":"ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dbohs.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just finished a paper on smell for the AIOH2008 conference in Perth in December. One of the references I wanted was Gilbert, A. (2008). What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life<\/em> , published in June. Gilbert was one of the authors of the 1986 National<\/strong> Geographic Smell Survey<\/strong> of its 10.5 million readers, using a questionnaire and micro-encapsulated scents.<\/p>\n

A quick check on Google Books gave the publication details and a link to libraries worldwide:<\/p>\n

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What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life<\/div>\n
By Avery Gilbert<\/div>\n
Published by Crown Publishing Group (NY), 2008<\/div>\n
ISBN 0307449300, 9780307449306<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Two libraries had the book, but they were interstate, so I looked further. A local on-line bookshop listed it for $55, somehwat higher than the converted $23.95USD price from the publisher – around $35AUD. The publisher’s website gave me links to various ebook vendors.<\/div>\n
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  1. Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. BooksOnBoard.com\n<\/li>\n
  3. Sony Connect\n<\/li>\n
  4. CyberRead<\/li>\n
  5. Diesel-ebooks<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. eBookimpressions<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. eBookMall<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. eBooks.com<\/li>\n
  9. eBooks About Everything<\/li>\n
  10. eBookwise<\/li>\n
  11. eChapterOne<\/li>\n
  12. eFollett<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. eReader<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Fictionwise<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. Franklin<\/li>\n
  16. Microsoft<\/li>\n
  17. Mobipocket<\/li>\n
  18. Powells<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
    Comparison was difficult, as some gave in-house coupons, other required special hardware, some like Sony Connect were only for US and Canada and perhaps UK.\u00a0 I ended up selecting eChapterOne <\/strong>for $19.16USD and paying by secure link using my credit card. That will end up around $30AUD with the plummeting Australian dollar.<\/div>\n
    At first I was unable to download the file – the brief instructions were limited and I assumed that the Adobe PDF Reader 8 was fine. Eventually I worked out that I needed “Adobe Digital Editions<\/strong>” and the file downloade and opened up in this new program installed. Unfortunately the Digital Rights Management is quite over the top – no copying or printing. It rather goes beyond restricting “fair use” in being able to copy a sentence or detail for my own publications.\u00a0 I guess one can OCR a screen grab, but that’s not the point. When I upgraded to Adobe Reader 9,<\/strong> attempting to open the ebook PDF file automatically linked me to Adobe Digital Editions.<\/div>\n
    It looks like I could also register my laptop with Adobe and read the eBook on it too, though I don’t like other people’s programs lurking in the background. What I didn’t like was not being able to preview the book like you would in a bookshop.<\/div>\n
    Other vendors like National Acadamies Press<\/a><\/strong> allow you to preview reports, one page at a time, so you know what you are getting.<\/div>\n
    I save all my PDF files on my server and search my server and computer with Google Desktop, which also indexes PDF files – a great way to find that detail amongst thousands of files. I find reading a paper copy much easier and I like to scribble in the margins, so I print most PDF’s on a duplex laser printer. It saves boxes of paper a year.<\/div>\n
    It was nice to email my paper this afternoon to the conference organisers this afternoon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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