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Reading Is An Investment In Thinking
The Long Decline of Reading It takes hours to finish a book, even for the fastest readers. This wasn’t a problem when books had less competition, but with the three massive timesinks of cable TV, vide… more →
Mike Cane 2008
Reading Is An Investment In Thinking
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wrote 4 years ago: The Long Decline of Reading It takes hours to finish a book, even for the fastest readers. This wasn … more →
ECTACO jetBook And ePub
wrote 4 years ago: My curiosity won’t let me rest, of course. I found out the jetBook is also in China, called th … more →
Reference: GutenMark
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wrote 4 years ago: GutenMark Home Page Attractively formatting Project Gutenberg texts What is GutenMark? GutenMark is … more →
Eejit Geeks. Things Should Just Work!
wrote 4 years ago: Ectaco Jetbook downloads I do not know what a line feed, text editor or DRM is, nor do I know how to … more →
The Monthly Digital Lifeline Bill
wrote 4 years ago: Numbers to keep in mind $260 a month. That’s how much the average US household is spending each mont … more →
Reference: Public Libraries And eBooks
wrote 4 years ago: The fine folks over at MobileRead have put together a wiki for public libraries that offer eBooks. I … more →
The Zero-Gravity Toilet Of Adobe DRMed ePub
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wrote 4 years ago: There’s a classic shot in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey when the main character has to first … more →
Micro Fondle 2: ECTACO jetBook eBook Reader
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wrote 4 years ago: Ever since ECTACO emailed me about upcoming ePub capability for its jetBook eBook reader, I’ve … more →
Dying Dinosaurs Of Print: Red Alert!
wrote 4 years ago: Americans prefer news from Web to newspapers: survey The Internet has surpassed newspapers as the ma … more →
This Is The Future Of Book Tours
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wrote 4 years ago: I need to do this again because people weren’t listening the first time — and, frankly, … more →
Dying Dinosaurs Of Print Slow Suicide
wrote 4 years ago: Read it and weep The economic news couldn’t be worse for the book industry. Now insiders are a … more →
Apple Approves Of Shooting Nurses In The Face!
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wrote 4 years ago: mj via Twitter informed me of a game available on the UK iTunes App Store, called Silent Hill: The E … more →
The POPE Endorses eBooks!
wrote 4 years ago: Sacred texts: Vatican embraces iTunes prayer book VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is endorsing new … more →
God Bless Writer Derek Raymond
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wrote 4 years ago: Death at One’s Elbow: Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels Their stories are baroque, bizarre, … more →
Caliban's End Is POD Available
wrote 4 years ago: Following up on an earlier post, after Lulu sorted out all the problems they caused him, Paul F. Ste … more →
They Keep Trying To Kill The Long Tail
wrote 4 years ago: Long Tail theory contradicted as study reveals 10m digital music tracks unsold The internet was supp … more →
A.D.A.S.
wrote 4 years ago: Always Do A Scan. I had something really slowing down this PC today. I ran Ad-Aware 2008, because th … more →
Businesses: Smugness = Lost Customers!
wrote 4 years ago: You would think, here in the 21st century, companies would realize people talk to one another all th … more →
You Will Want To BUY eBooks
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wrote 4 years ago: I had a few unexpected hours off the Internet today due to a connectivity issue. I didn’t feel … more →
