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Write ebooks with the free Reedsy online writing app

Byryan November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

Source: The Reedsy Book Editor: A FREE Online Writing Tool | Reedsy

Reedsy is a pretty impressive online book editor. You can use it to write your book and then export it as .epub (for e-readers from Barnes & Noble, Apple devices, and more) or .mobie (Kindle e-readers).

The site supports Google accounts, and you can get started pretty quickly. On the left you can rearrange your various chapters, and when you are ready to publish, there are a few different themes to try.

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Find datasets in Google’s Dataset Search

Byryan May 23, 2019May 23, 2019

Google Dataset Search is a search engine for various sets of data available on the internet. This could be used by students to find more information out about something they are studying. To use the site, you visit Dataset Search and start typing the kind of data you want. Dataset Search will search as you…

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Free ebooks from NASA

Byryan October 5, 2018October 5, 2018

Free ebooks from NASA. Source: NASA e-Books | NASA NASA has a multitude of eBooks available, cover aeronautics and space travel. Every ebook I checked was available in PDF, but several were also available in .MOBI for use on Kindle devices and .EPUB for other ebook readers and portable devices.

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Create Penguin Classics or Oxford World Classics book covers for free

Byryan May 30, 2020May 27, 2020

Source: Penguin Classics Cover Generator After your students write the next great American novel, the next step is to create a cover. The Penguin Classics Cover Generator is a tool you can use to get that cover. For my example above, I grabbed a picture from Unsplash and uploaded to the Penguin Classics Cover Generator….

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When you need to resize an image try the Social Image Resizer Tool

Byryan November 1, 2018November 1, 2018

When you need to resize and image use the Social Image Resizer Tool. Source: Social Image Resizer Tool So, you took a picture with your smartphone and would like to use it as your Twitter avatar, or post it to the web. The problem is that Twitter will yell at you for uploading such a…

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Create custom text emojis with Textmoji

Byryan November 13, 2021November 10, 2021

Source: Textmoji · Make custom text emoji This app might not make sense if you don’t use the messaging app Slack. Slack allows you to create custom emojis that you can trigger in your conversations. I found the app and realized that it could be used to create all sorts of little graphics for you…

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Nope, printed books aren’t going out of style

Byryan September 6, 2016September 6, 2016

As Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble launched their respective eBook readers in 2007 and 2010, there were many who rushed to predict that the printed book would soon be meeting an untimely end. New data from the Pew Research Center now suggests that your standard paper, ink, and glue novel has considerable staying power with…

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