Oh that eReader of mine! I have been working with it for the last week trying to decide if I was going to keep it or send it back. At one point I was VERY happy I had bought the 'extra' warranty because I almost threw it against the wall.
Then I started thinking - why did I have to read books with it? That was when it became fun.
I am going to have a vendor table at the Florida State Genealogical Society Conference to sell my pet project "Everyday Genealogy - the Desk Calendar" and was trying to come up with display items. AH!!!! My eReader supports jpegs and has a 'Slide Show' option.
Since my friend Pam Treme and I will also be promoting our 'Technology Tamers' training programs I set about gathering jpegs. For Everyday Genealogy I collected the various jpegs I have for the calendar and the iPhone app. For Technology Tamers I went into our PowerPoint Presentations and saved various pages as jpegs (an option in the Save As feature in Powerpoint).
Within an half hour I was loading these jpegs onto my eReader and WHAM I had a slide show. The eReader has options for the speed of the slide show and the transitions. And best of all my eReader came with a stand. I now had a display for my vendor table.
So, what else is my eReader good at doing - besides reading books? It also has a web browser so I decided to set up some of my favortie genealogy websites (Mmmm www.everydaygenealogy.com) to help answer questions that may come up.
Last but not least, I did load some books - mine and Pam's. The eReader can import PDFs that you, the everyday person creates. Pam and I have both created Family History Books and Pam has created work books for some of our classes. Now we will be able to show these books at our vendor table without carrying them around.
So, I guess I'll keep the eReader - I may even read a book on it one of these days!
I am so glad I found this post. I have been in an ereader frenzy since I won the Sony Reader a few weeks ago. Like you I have recently been trying to make it work for genealogy. So far the best use has been to create two collections. One for work genealogy and one for personal. Then I started loading all the old public domain books I like to use. Now they will be accessible without a computer or going to the library. I have used Google Books and HeritageQuest so far.
ReplyDeleteI loaded a PDF census record successfully but the reader won't enlarge it. Maybe I need to try a jpeg.