Wednesday 29 June 2011
Tuesday 12 April 2011
New Dripread website is now live
The old Dripread site was looking, how shall we put it, slightly crap. So we decided to redesign the Dripread website experience.
Books can now be browsed by category or by title, which should make it easier to identify books you're interested in.
There's also a news feed section on the right hand side, which highlights the latest reads and the soon the most popular.
We also promoted the Upload Book feature of Dripread to allow readers to Dripread their own books, rather than being limited to the public domain texts already available. Hopefully this will also encourage readers to create and share content for others to enjoy. Any ideas for books?
Finally we're looking to add a review feature for each book, so readers can recomend (or not) the reading experience.
We'd love to hear your comments, ideas for improvements or problems. Please send an email to help@dripread.com
thanks
The Dripread team
Books can now be browsed by category or by title, which should make it easier to identify books you're interested in.
There's also a news feed section on the right hand side, which highlights the latest reads and the soon the most popular.
We also promoted the Upload Book feature of Dripread to allow readers to Dripread their own books, rather than being limited to the public domain texts already available. Hopefully this will also encourage readers to create and share content for others to enjoy. Any ideas for books?
Finally we're looking to add a review feature for each book, so readers can recomend (or not) the reading experience.
We'd love to hear your comments, ideas for improvements or problems. Please send an email to help@dripread.com
thanks
The Dripread team
Tuesday 15 March 2011
Open Univeristy - Openlearn content on dripread
I came across an interesting project that had the same idea as dripread at
http://learningfeed.org/
Unfortunately it barley seems to have gotten off the ground, but it did give me the idea of making Open University lectures available on dripread.
In fact I think the dripread delivery mechanism of a bite size chunk off information in daily intervals is a good way to learn about a topic without having to make a concious effort to site down and study.
If it makes the difference between a student actually reading the material and them just meaning to read the material but not getting round to it, then dripreading would seems worthwhile.
Anyway, here's a first version of a short course I have adapted on Evolution via dripread.
http://www.dripread.com/book/evolutionthroughnaturalselectionopenlearntheopenuniversity
Let me know what you think
http://learningfeed.org/
Unfortunately it barley seems to have gotten off the ground, but it did give me the idea of making Open University lectures available on dripread.
In fact I think the dripread delivery mechanism of a bite size chunk off information in daily intervals is a good way to learn about a topic without having to make a concious effort to site down and study.
If it makes the difference between a student actually reading the material and them just meaning to read the material but not getting round to it, then dripreading would seems worthwhile.
Anyway, here's a first version of a short course I have adapted on Evolution via dripread.
http://www.dripread.com/book/evolutionthroughnaturalselectionopenlearntheopenuniversity
Let me know what you think
Welcome to dripread
Welcome to the dripread blog. Here I will keep you upto date with all the latest happenings on dripread.com.
dripread was created to scratch a personal itch. I was tired of finding a great book, enthusiastically start reading it and then totally forgetting about it, only to return to it a few weeks or months later wondering why I had not read more of it.
So I wanted two main things:
1. To be reminded of the book I was reading
2. To have super quick convenient access to that book
...and so dripread was created.
Although there are a number of public domain texts available, really the driving force behind dripead is to allow users to upload books THEY are interested in and would like to read.
It's very much a work in progress, as I add new features and try out new ideas.
I'd love to hear your opinions and any ideas you have on how dripread can be more useful to you.
Happy dripread'ing
May you finish what you started
www.dripread.com
dripread was created to scratch a personal itch. I was tired of finding a great book, enthusiastically start reading it and then totally forgetting about it, only to return to it a few weeks or months later wondering why I had not read more of it.
So I wanted two main things:
1. To be reminded of the book I was reading
2. To have super quick convenient access to that book
...and so dripread was created.
Although there are a number of public domain texts available, really the driving force behind dripead is to allow users to upload books THEY are interested in and would like to read.
It's very much a work in progress, as I add new features and try out new ideas.
I'd love to hear your opinions and any ideas you have on how dripread can be more useful to you.
Happy dripread'ing
May you finish what you started
www.dripread.com
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