Kindle Scholarship
David Weinberger, over at his Everything is Miscellaneous blog, points out three major problems with Amazon’s Kindle reader for scholarly work:
1) “note-taking and highlighting are jokes”
2) “doesn’t know the original page numbering”
3) “no bibliographical tool”(From “Kindle is fun but sucks for scholars“)
One of the comments to that post suggests porting to the Kindle a version of Zotero, which could make use of your database portably. Presumably such a
Computational History
William Turkel, author of the excellent Programming Historian, has recently published a provocative post on his blog, Digital History Hacks. He writes there,
To some extent we’re all digital historians already, as it is quickly becoming impossible to imagine doing historical research without making use of e-mail, discussion lists, word processors, search engines, bibliographical databases and electronic publishing. Some day pretty soon, the “digital” in “digital history” is going to sound redundant…
Turkel’s post, well