At your fingertips: Just in time for Christmas, Sony is set to introduce the Reader Daily Edition, a wireless device that can download books from thousands of libraries, including the East Baton Rouge Parish Library system. The Reader Daily Edition will sell for $399 and will feature a seven-inch touchscreen. Users will be able to “check out” books from the library for free; after a few weeks the license for the book will expire. Other local library systems that are part of the Reader Daily Edition network are New Orleans, Lafayette and Jefferson Parish. See the reader here.
A Landmark is gone: The Canal Place Cinema in New Orleans, a haven for south Louisiana fans of independent and foreign films, will shut down in two weeks and get a new owner and a new look. The Times-Picayune says Landmark Theaters, which operates art house theaters, is leaving Canal Place when its lease expires Sept. 7. Southern Theaters will take over the facility and begin a $4 million renovation. Read the Times-Picayune story here.
