The Douglas and Judith Krupp Library » Kindles

New Toys!

Bill Doughty — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:56:13 +0000

So you’re all probably aware by now that we have second generation iPads and Amazon Kindle e-readers that we lend out here at the library, but were you aware of the other cool toys we have available for you to check out now?

Student Laptops – We’ve had laptops for you to check out for student use in the library for several years now, but this year there’s a big change to our process: now they can actually leave the building. Working on a project and your laptop is on fritz, or maybe you don’t have one at all? You can now check out one of ours for up to a week, with a renewal period of an additional week (please note that these are for matriculating Bryant undergrad and graduate students only).

Rosetta Stone Laptops – We now have 7 laptops that come loaded with Rosetta Stone language software to help you learn French, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Gaelic, Russian, and Italian (1 language per laptop). Bryant students, faculty, and staff members can check these out for up to 4 weeks, with a renewal period of an additional 2 weeks.

Kindle Fires – Besides the regular Amazon Kindle e-readers, we now also have Kindle Fire tablets available to lend to Bryant students, faculty, and staff. These Android-powered tablets can hook up to your Amazon account, allowing you to purchase ebooks and magazines (and download any previous purchases), as well as download a variety of apps (Comixology looks great on this, if I may offer a suggestion). These can be checked out for a week and renewed for an additional week.

Lenovo ThinkPad Slates – These tablets are also Android-powered, but come with a detachable USB keyboard/case and stylus, making them sort of the midpoint between a laptop and an iPad. Bryant students, faculty, and staff can check these out for a week (and renew for another week), download apps through Google Play (Comixology also looks great here… just sayin’), and really take it for a spin.

The iPads and Kindles aren’t going anywhere, and are still available for your use, but we heartily encourage you to explore and play with these other awesome options we now offer. And as always, if you have any questions, stop by, call (232-6125), or email (circdesk AT bryant DOT edu) us!

Next Kindle Brown Bag Lunch to be held Tuesday, January 17th in Gulski Dining Room

Bill Doughty — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:37:08 +0000

Looking to learn more about your Kindle, or maybe just hoping to get some suggestions for new books to download? Then come to the next Kindle Brown Bag Lunch event on Tuesday, January 17th, from 1 to 2 pm in Gulski Dining Room. Library staff will be on hand to help discuss and demonstrate the latest tips and tricks to get the most out of your Kindle, as well as provide an opportunity for users to swap hints and recommendations of their own. Bring your lunch and join in!

Coming soooooooooon…

Bill Doughty — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:09:12 +0000

Yup. We’re getting the Kindle Fire. Several of them, in fact. We don’t have an exact date to tell you, unfortunately, as they don’t get released to retail until November 15th, and Amazon is apparently honoring pre-orders in the order in which they were received, so while we’re hoping we get ours in that initial batch, we don’t know for sure.

But given how excited you all get for the Kindles and iPads we already have, we figured this e-reader/tablet lovechild would be the sort of thing that would also catch your fancy. So, if that’s the case, consider your fancy officially caught.

More information as we get it, of course.

UPDATE: The Kindle Fires now have an estimated delivery date of sometime between November 21 and November 29. Get excited.

118 (and counting!) reasons to check out a Kindle.

Bill Doughty — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:56:03 +0000

Don’t let all the excitement about the iPad make you forget that we still have Amazon Kindles to loan out to Bryant students, faculty, and staff, too. Same system as always: available on a first-come, first-served basis (no holds), one week check-out period, and an optional one-week renewal.

For more information on the Kindle initiative, check out this page, and for a list of our ever-growing number of titles available on the Kindles, click here.

89(!) reasons to check out a Kindle.

Bill Doughty — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:07:21 +0000

As if there wasn’t plenty of incentive to check out one of our Kindles before, we currently have almost 90 titles loaded (or pre-ordered to be loaded on their release date) on each of them: new fiction, classics, non-fiction, study guides, and more. And, of course, we’re always looking for suggestions for more, so if there’s anything you’re looking for and don’t already see here, ask?

And now, after the jump (to save space here on the front page, because honestly, that’s a lot of books), the list.

101 Ways to Score Higher on your LSAT / Atlantic Publishing Company
The 9th Judgment / James Patterson
Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy
As Husbands Go / Susan Isaacs (pre-ordered for July 6th release)
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives / John Palfrey
Breathless / Dean R. Koontz
Catching Fire / Richard Wrangham
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands / Deborah Gewertz
Chocolat / Joanne Harris
Civil Disobedience / Henry David Thoreau
Cod: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World / Mark Kurlansky
Common Sense / Thomas Paine
Crashers / Dana Haynes (pre-ordered for June 22nd release)
Democratizing Innovation / Eric von Hippel
Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World / Vicki Myron
Dracula / Bram Stoker
Dream Work Experience: Unconventional Strategies to Land the Internship of Your Dreams / Bill Riddell
Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx
Ethics / Aristotle
Every Day in Tuscany : Seasons of an Italian Life / Frances Mayes
Frankenstein / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Get That Job: Resume Writing and Interviewing Tips for Recent Graduates / Jack Bernstein
Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World / Lewis Hyde
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest / Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire / Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson
Great Doctrines of the Bible / William Evans
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer
Gulliver’s Travels / Jonathan Swift
Happens Every Day: an All-Too-True Story / Isabel Gillies
House of Cards: a Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street / William D. Cohan
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm / Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day / Arnold Bennett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot
The Invisible Man / H. G. Wells
Is There Life After College 2010? / Jack Falvey
Jeanne D’Arc: Her Life and Death / Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Kindle DX Users Guide
Kindle Users Guide
The Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom
Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen / Michael A. Roberto
Last Night at the Lobster: a Novel / Stewart O’Nan
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
Legends of King Arthur and His Knights / Sir James Knowles
Life in the Iron Mills / Rebecca Harding Davis
The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons / Henry Steel Olcott
The Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee / John Esten Cooke
Like Water for Chocolate / Laura Esquivel
The Lost Symbol / Dan Brown
McGraw-Hill’s GMAT (2011) / James Hasik, Stacey Rudnick, Ryan Hackney
McGraw-Hill’s GRE (2010) / Steven Dulan
McGraw-Hill’s MAT (2010) / Kathy Zahler
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood / Howard Pyle
A Midsummer Night’s Dream / William Shakespeare
Mountains of California / John Muir
My Antonia / Willa Cather
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
New Oxford American Dictionary
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America / Barbara Ehrenreich
Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: a Natural History of Four Meals / Michael Pollan
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection / Charles Darwin
Othello / William Shakespeare
Outliers: the Story of Success / Malcolm Gladwell
Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can’t / Jim Champy
Persuasion / Jane Austen
The Phantom of the Opera / Gaston Leroux
Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen
The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli
Private / James Patterson (pre-ordered for June 28th release)
The Scarlet Letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sense and Sensibility / Jane Austen
Stickeen / John Muir
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
Thomas Jefferson: A Character Sketch / Edward S. Ellis
The Time Machine / H. G. Wells
Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Jules Verne
U is for Undertow / Sue Grafton
Utopia / Sir Saint Thomas More
Varieties of Religious Experience / William James
War of the Worlds / H. G. Wells
White Fang / Jack London
Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus / Michael A. Roberto
The Wife’s Tale / Lori Lansens
The Woman Behind the New Deal: the Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience / Kirstin Downey
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum