{"id":1444,"date":"2012-10-16T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:30:28","slug":"beagle-the-e9-90-e-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/beagle-the-e9-90-e-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Beagle &#8211; the \u20ac9.90 e-reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1445\" title=\"Txtr_ereader\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/10\/Txtr_ereader.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" \/>A\u00a0tiny e-reader, called Beagle, only\u00a0five inches and 128 grams, was introduced by Txtr at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week. It has no Wi-Fi embedded, and it needs to work with smartphone to add e-books. \u00a0&#8220;The main selling point is its low price &#8211; \u20ac9.90 ($12.88 USD)&#8221;. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/2012\/10\/09\/berlins-txtr-introduces-e9-90-e-reader-subsidized-by-mobile-carriers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At McGill University, you actually can borrow an <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=WHD&amp;adjacent=1&amp;request=e-readers\">e-reader<\/a> from the Library. To find an e-book, you may explore this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/library-findinfo\/ebooks\">page<\/a> or search in the <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b-0&amp;local_base=EBOOKS\">e-book sub-catalogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0tiny e-reader, called Beagle, only\u00a0five inches and 128 grams, was introduced by Txtr at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week. It has no Wi-Fi embedded, and it needs to work with smartphone to add e-books. \u00a0&#8220;The main selling point is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/beagle-the-e9-90-e-reader\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,137],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-e-books","tag-e-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}