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BNC CataList Hack: Saving catalogues for offline use on your iPad
In this post, we show you how to create offline versions of your catalogues so you can have a backup should you lose that precious wifi connection (or just want to save on data charges).
The Safari browser on your iPad has a built-in Reading List that helps you save webpages for offline access. Here’s how we use it for BNC CataList.
The new reader
The Canada Reads effect
ebookcraft 2015: Everything old is new again
Tech Forum and ebookcraft wrap-up
Bestselling female authors
Build a bookstore with Shopify
Creating is ordinary
It’s the end of reading as we know it (and Kevin Ashton feels fine). The author and coiner of the term “the internet of things” will be coming to Tech Forum on March 12 to tell us how we can all survive the Ebookalypse.
In the meantime, you can read about the very ordinary, human act of creation in this excerpt from his new book, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery.
