So, what do you do when you have an old iPad that you no longer want to use?   Well you could sell it on eBay, use it as a cheese board or perhaps as a frisbee.   Or you could do what a zoo keeper did with his.  He set it up with a game of cat and mouse and gave it to his young penguins – and they loved it.

So, watch this rather fun video of how the penguins enjoyed playing with the iPad

Fun eh?

Here is something that should appeal to all iPad owning folk who are stuck in wheel chairs, The Joy Factory have a purpose built support to hold your iPad on your  wheel chair.

This simple but well thought out accessory will securely hold your iPad exactly where you want it and can easily be readjusted or simply pushed out of the way when you are through with your iPad.    Further, obviously, it means that your iPad is ready for use but is safe and secure and leaves your hands free for moving your wheel chair around, or indeed simply grabbing that cup of coffee that you need to inspire you to write the next email.

The Joy Factory describe it in the following terms:-

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What are the main ereaders available just now?   Well perhaps this table produced by the good folk at Publishing Trends might help you a wee bit.

They have concentrated on the few better known makers of ereaders and tablets here, ignoring all the European and Asian makers for some reason, so no mention of BeBook,  Bookeen, Hanvon and all of them, so it is obviously aimed at readers in the USA rather than the entire world, but nevertheless it does give a quick view of the main ereaders fromm the main players in this field.

To see the table in all its full sized glory, click on this link, and the PDF file will load on a separate window for you.  Enjoy it, and I hope it is something of a help to you.

Ereader comparison table.

Source:  With thanks to Publishing Tends.

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Was this any help to you, or is it too simplistic to really help?  Do let me know, so I can improve matters when I get myself together enough to produce one myself.

I have just come across what has to be the most expensive iPad sleeve on the market. Definitely something for he or she who already has everything.

At $147 this insanely expensive, but beautiful sleeve for your precious iPad made by Crane & Co is really something that I at least would have to think more than twice before buying. But for those with more money to spare than I have this could be a very pleasing thing to own, and will assuredly protect your iPad from life’s knocks and bumps excellently.

Full Grain Calfskin Leather

It is made from what they describe as “Full Grain Calfskin Leather”, which to be honest doesn’t actually tell me anything, but then I am almost totally ignorant about the differing types and qualities of leather, but I assume this means very high class leather. It certainly looks beautiful, but at that price, so it should!

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First impressions can be very wrong…..I came across this story yesterday, and my first reaction was “What now? How silly can one get? Ereaders for the blind? No way”. I then thought something along the lines of this is yet another example of people rushing to law for totally stupid reasons.

My First reaction was wrong:

Anyhow, I went on the read the article and looked at a video they had made to explain their problem more clearly, and that changed my mind completely and I realized how my immediate reaction was way off beam, and that they actually had a good point.

I had simply never thought of ereaders and blind people as having anything to do with each other, and if I had thought about it, I would have assumed that by their very nature, ereaders, as with normal paper books were simply no use to blind people.  How on earth could a blind person use an ereader?

Text to Speech is the key:

But as they point out, many ereaders support what is called Text to Speech, which means that the ereader can “read” the ebook out loud for you. But the particular ereader they are upset about, the Nook does not have this function and their argument is that the library should have purchased an ereader that did support Text to speech, rather than the Nook,  so that blind members of the library could take out ereaders in exactly the same way as sighted people did. For example the Kindle, which is an ereader with this function.

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M-Edge, well known for their wide range of ereader accessories have now launched their uView Mounting System on a number of their iPad covers. This system allows you to click your iPad into the cover in a whole range of different manners, and apparently is the first step in a set of covers using this system to allow you to mount a number of iPad gadgets in these covers.

Rather than write a long screed describing what this system offers us, I thought I would simply show you the promo video they have made, which describes pretty well what it is, and how you use it.

This mounting system, which I wrote about a while ago in another post about M-Edge accessories (link below) is now apparently sold with the range of iPad covers in the photo here, and at no extra cost as far as I can discover.

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