Day off without touching the computer (partly enforced) - but probably very good for me.



Spent some of today looking through the PowerPoint slides brought back by a senior colleague who went to a day of presentations by ebook publishers and the like. He was contributing his own presentation on our perspective as academic institution users.

Although it's hard to judge the tone from just the slides you can't help feeling that even now as the publishers boast about how they're getting in touch with users that they're only just beginning to get anywhere near thinking about what users actually want. Our usage is (apparently) pretty impressive compared to other universities - but I still think we've yet to see how ebooks could be used once all the technology/rights issues stop getting in the way.