This month CLCD is sharing not one, not two, but three apps for you-the professionals who read! Keeping track of what you read used to be done on slips of paper or perhaps a notebook. Today there are several excellent apps for going green and having those notes with you at all times. Read these brief descriptions of apps for bookworms, then bite the bullet and add one to your phone.

Goodreads From Goodreads Inc.
IndieBound From American Booksellers Association
Book Crawler from Chiisai App Solutions

Source: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database   (CLCD)

Scholarships APP: Scholly

Scholly is an easy way for high school seniors, current undergraduates, and graduate students in the United States to find money for their education. Designed to ease the scholarship search process, Scholly’s adaptive matching engine delivers a smarter, targeted list of scholarships for each student. Scholly remedies the current outdated process which requires that each student fill out long, tiresome forms only to receive irrelevant, useless results. View it in iTunes. Only costs $0.99, it works for both iPhone and Android.

Read about the inventor of Scholly in the current issue of eCAMPUS NEWS.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE FIRST INCOME TAX

It was on this day in 1861 that Abraham Lincoln signed the first income tax into law. It taxed imports, provided for a direct land tax, and imposed a tax of 3% on individual incomes over $800 (in current dollars, $18,000). Lincoln could only tax the northern states and the Revenue Act of 1861 lasted only 10 years. The federal income tax returned for good in 1913 with the passage of the 16th Amendment.