# 23 (Week 9) Is this really the end? Or is it just the beginneing....

I really really hope it is the end. This has been an interesting exercise, but I can't say I exactly enjoyed it, as I felt pressured by time constraints. I felt I didn't really get the time to play with anything I enjoyed. I got sick of having to sign up to so many sites, and remember all those usernames and passwords. There were a lot of things that seemed pointless and I wouldn't use again: eg technorati, tagging. I did think some things were quite good, and either I would use them myself (such as RSS feeds, googledocs or zohowriter) or I could see a use for them on a library site (eg wikis, podcasts). I do feel more confident now helping patrons at the learn.net

# 22 (Week 9) ebooks

I'm trying to finish my learning 2.0 by next week, as I will be having a bit of a break after that. I've watched the introduction to netlibrary, and have been having a play in e-books.com. I read an exerpt from Deepak Chopra's book, Life After Death. Project Gutenburg is easy to navigate, but of course all the books are old and classics, because they can only add books whose copyright has expired. You can download from the main site, or mirror sites, whereby you are downloading from somewhere closer, like Sydney University, or you can download peer to peer. I wouldn't really use ebooks as I'd rather read from a printed page than a computer screen. Maybe this new wireless electronic book reader that Amazon have released would be easier to read. They say it has a digital ink screen.