For busy people who want to effortlessly stay informed, Vocalyze provides a personalized mobile news and entertainment service that turns Tweets, blogs and and other written web content into real-time audio podcasts. How about if a robot reads to you your favourite news articles while you are driving to work!!. The service switches between a male and female voice after a couple of posts, which keeps things from getting monotonous.
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Showcases fascinating notes, letters, telegrams, memos and more from a variety of people, including celebrities and regular citizens.
The Free High School Science Textbook (FHSST) project is free project that builds and distributes free Mathematics Grades: 10, 11 and 12 and Physical Science: Grades: 10, 11 and 12. You can download their text books from here: FHSST
is a global service that supports e-book content on most major handsets as well as the PC and Mac. Kobo has just announced that it will be making available 1.8 million titles from the Internet Archive, free of charge. This partnership will give Kobo users access to Internet Archive’s recently-launched BookServer project. Internet Archive’s library of titles will be added to Kobo’s current selections, which include titles from all top publishers, as well as literary, independent and regional presses.
In their own words booksinmyphone
“ Read books on your mobile/cell phone!
We format and package books so that you can read them on a java enabled phone. Most phones sold today are java enabled – you probably have one in your pocket right now.
Our book reader program is integrated within each downloadable book.
Features of the BooksInMyPhone book reader program include:
- Adjustable font size settings – make the letters bigger or smaller according to your personal preference.
- Night-vision mode – makes it easy to read in a dark room.
- Chapter navigation navigate the book by chapter.
- Pause & Auto-resume function – automatically pauses and resumes to accommodate incoming calls.
- Auto-bookmark – you never have to remember where you’re up to in the book.
We manually review and format each of our books so that they will present well on a mobile/cell phone screen and deliver a high quality reading experience. “
