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Kindle for Law Schools: Small Tool, Big Idea

Explore the potential of using the Amazon Kindle for legal studies in this informative session from the CALI Conference for Law School Computing. Discover the convenience, content capacity, and connectivity features of the Kindle, along with its drawbacks and potential applications as a portable legal library. Delve into real-world examples and obstacles faced by law students and professionals when using the Kindle for legal research and study. 8 Relevant

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Kindle for Law Schools: Small Tool, Big Idea

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  1. The Kindle for Law SchoolsSmall Tool, Big Idea Lyonette Louis-Jacques Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law D'Angelo Law Library CALI Conference for Law School Computing: "Tools for Change" June 19, 2009 http://w.cali.org/conference/session/64

  2. One Kindle to Rule Them All • The Amazon Kindle • The Kindle 2 • The Kindle DX • The Kindle for iPhone App

  3. My Kindle 2

  4. What’s On My Kindle?

  5. Convenience • The Kindle is small • The Kindle is light • The Kindle is long-lasting • The Kindle is capacious • The Kindle is wireless

  6. Content • The Kindle 2 holds 1500 books • The Kindle Store has over 300,000 books, magazines, newspapers, blogs • You can load your own content onto the Kindle 2, but… • The Kindle 2 has a text-to-speech feature, but…

  7. Connecting with the Kindle • You can search for content • You can find definitions of terms • You can annotate and highlight texts • You can jump to the web • You can play music on the Kindle • You can change font sizes • The Kindle can read to you

  8. Bill Russell, Red and Me (2009)

  9. Red and Me, “Prologue”

  10. Highlighting Text

  11. Adding Notes

  12. Some Kindle Disconnects • The Kindle is expensive • The Kindle 2 breaks up PDFs, slow page turns • The Kindle is bland and colorless (and you can’t read it in the dark) – but see iPhone app • The Kindle is fragile • The Kindle’s text-to-speech flawed, not for all books • The Kindle only handles non-DRM uploads • Kindle content is not “device agnostic” • The Kindle is U.S. only, for now • Questions re lending, gifting content

  13. Concept: A Portable Library • The Kindle could replace heavy casebooks • You could load working papers, court opinions, statutes, and other documents on the Kindle • The Kindle can contain recreational reading materials, and course packets, conference papers • You could load legal MP3s, Audible audiobooks. • You can annotate and highlight texts and read them at Amazon.com • You can browse books and link out to referenced text

  14. Concept Applied • 531 U.S. (CALI Kindle version) • Professor David Currie reading the U.S. Constitution (MP3) • Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (PDF) • Results of informal survey on Twitter, teknoids, and the CSSIS-L lists on Kindle ownership and use • Kindle stories, testimonials: “I love my Kindle!”

  15. Obstacles • The Kindle Store has very few casebooks, hornbooks and nutshells, law reviews (major legal publishers not adding content) • The Kindle Store does not have Black’s Law Dictionary • The Kindle Store has very few primary legal materials • The Kindle 2 does not handle PDFs well (odd word breaks) • The Kindle 2 does not really do pagination • The Kindle 2 does not link out from texts to web

  16. Conclusion • The Kindle = Small Tool • The Kindle = Big Idea for Change • The Kindle = “The Big Potential”, The Kindle Wave? • Is the Kindle Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, or Kwame Brown?

  17. Is the Kindle Wilt the Stilt?

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