Amazon Kindle Available for Checkout

The library has purchased an Amazon Kindle that VU faculty, students and staff may check out from the service desk for a loan period of two weeks. There are 11 e-books currently downloaded on the Kindle, consisting mostly of computer science and web development books. Please give the Kindle a try and let us know what you think of it as a portable e-book reading device for a library. Read the Gizmodo Kindle review.

Stevenson Library Kindle Content List:

1. HTML, XHTML, and CSS by Elizabeth Castro (Kindle Edition - 2008)
   
2. C++ Primer Plus by Stephen Prata (Kindle Edition - Feb 14, 2008)
   
3. Effective Java Programming Language Guide by Joshua Bloch (Kindle Edition - 2007)
   
4. Ajax : The Complete Reference by Thomas Powell (Kindle Edition - 2008)
   
5. Pragmatic Programmer, The by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (Kindle Edition - 2008)
   
6. A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux by Mark G. Sobell (Kindle Edition - 2008)
   
7. PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson (Kindle Edition - 2007)
   
8. Flash CS3 Professional for Windows and Macintosh by Katherine Ulrich (Kindle Edition - 2008)
   
9. The Digital Photography Book, Volume 1 by Scott Kelby (Kindle Edition - 2008)
   
10. Professional LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP5 Web Development (Wrox Professional Guides) by Jason Gerner et al (Kindle Edition - 2005)
    
11. Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (Kindle Edition - 2007)
    
    

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Updated 4.16.08