All entries for Thursday 28 April 2005

April 28, 2005

Using OneNote with online texts

Follow-up to Google Print – free books from Transversality - Robert O'Toole

I am currently evaluating the use of Microsoft OneNote in both my philosophy and my e-learning work, running it on a WiFi connected Tablet PC.

Now that I am a committed user of Microsoft OneNote, I am more interested in getting access to books and journals online. OneNote is a sophisticated note taking tool. One of its most useful features is 'Insert screen clipping'. This allows for a clip of another open application to be taken and inserted into the currently open notes page. When this is done with a web page, the url of the page is also inserted.

Annotations can then be added to the clip.

When a book is available digitally, this is really powerful.


: 28 Apr 2005 15:59 |  Tags:   |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

Google Print – free books

Writing about web page http://print.google.com/

Google are moving into the digital library business, and I am one of their first authors.

More plans for world domination are emerging out of the Google Incubator. Google Print, they intend, will eventually contain everything ever printed! Maybe, but at least I can confirm that already even the work of very obscure philosophers is in their easily searchable system. For example, a search for O'Toole results in this kind of slightly rabid Deleuzianism (this link seems to have stopped working, and in fact any links to the search form have disappeared from the print.google.com homepage).

Perhaps one day I might receive some royalties? Although this publication is already available for purchase from Routledge as various electronic formats, so only selected pages are in Google. In fact, they seem to have included enough to make it useful, and left out just enough to make it worth buying.


: 28 Apr 2005 15:39 |  Tags:   |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem