Posted in iPad, iPhone, Opinion, Reading, Tools on Oct 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
Informal e-reader library comparison Marco Arment (creator of Instapaper) has done a very nice comparison of the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and iBooks on the iPad. He’s comparing availability of content (books and periodicals) less usability of the various tools. By the way, Instapaper on the iPad is an incredible way to read articles that you’ve [...]
Posted in Apple, People, Reading on Oct 6th, 2011 8 Comments »
Walter Isaacson’s biography: Steve Jobs is available for pre-order from the iBook store. It will be released October 24th. Isaacson’s essay in the issue of Time Magazine coming out tomorrow includes this quote: A few weeks ago, I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Reading on Sep 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Public Library Books for Kindle You can borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 libraries in the United States to read on any generation Kindle device, free Kindle app, or in your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader. Public library books for Kindle provide the same unique features as Kindle and Kindle books, including Whispersync technology [...]
Posted in People, Reading on Sep 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Obituary for Michael Stern Hart Simply put, Michael Hart was the first to get what both Google and Amazon and Apple now get: having books in digital form, while not a total replacement for paper, allows a different kind of use of the material: searching, text to speech, and more. I met Michael many years [...]
Posted in Audio, iPad, iPhone, Learning Disabilities, Reading on Jun 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
Apple updates iBooks app with ‘read aloud’ feature Help your children learn to read with the new read-aloud feature included in select children’s books from the iBookstore. The read-aloud feature uses a real narrator to read the book to you, and in some books, it will even highlight the words as you read along. This [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, Learning Disabilities, Reading on Mar 31st, 2011 6 Comments »
Patrick James over at GOOD found an old post on Salon and commented on it: Do Books in the House Make Smarter Kids? Here’s Laura Miller’s post at Salon: Book owners have smarter kids. While I’m not sure I see how being exposed to books can make one smarter, exposure to books can certainly make [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Opinion, Process, Reading, Social Software on Mar 20th, 2011 13 Comments »
For those who don’t know it: The New York Times is going to be charging users of its online content and their pay scheme is complex and expensive. Here are the details: A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions I saw a tweet from The New York Times this morning and I followed it. [...]
Posted in Ideas, Learning Disabilities, Movies, Opinion, Reading on Mar 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Losing Parental Control: Reducing the Struggle – excerpt from Losing Control, Finding Serenity The Boingboing post is an excerpt from the book Losing Control Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us And How to Let It Go by Daniel A. Miller. Amazing to find this on Boingboing the same day I post my [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, Ideas, iPad, Reading on Feb 27th, 2011 No Comments »
The Kindle wants to be free This makes perfect sense: Kindle’s price has been dropping at a consistent rate since its introduction and at the rate the price is dropping it will be free November, 2011. Whether or not that target date is reached or that its absolutely free, it seems like a great idea [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, iPhone, Reading, Social Software, Tools on Feb 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
Is Mobile Affecting When We Read? Fascinating piece with graphs on the reading habits of people who are consuming at least some of their reading material on computers and hand-held devices and using services like Instapaper and Read it Later to time-shift when they read things they find. The study is from Read it Later. [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Opinion, People, Reading on Jan 12th, 2011 5 Comments »
Man of Mystery, Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels? Joan Acocella at the New Yorker has an excellent critique, background, and overview of Stieg Larsson’s novels and the films made from them in the January 10th issue. It seems Larsson’s background and possible motivations for inventing a character like Lisbeth Salander are as complex [...]
Posted in Politics, Reading on Jan 4th, 2011 2 Comments »
New Edition Of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Will Eliminate Offensive Words This is terrible. While I don’t use or support the use of the word “nigger” it’s an important part of the history of the United States and the setting for Mark Twain’s book was early enough so that the word in question was in common use. [...]
Posted in iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Reading, Social Software on Dec 12th, 2010 2 Comments »
Feel Free to Read This Later, on Your Phone But there are also other approaches, alternate distribution systems like the one that Marco Arment, a 28-year-old programmer, has created while working at home in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y. He built Instapaper, a clever way to create personalized publications. It is clever because it plays to [...]
Posted in iPhone Photography, People, Reading on Dec 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. Wendell Minor (illustrator and author) and Gordon Titcomb (writer and musician) have put together a book based on the lyrics to one of Gordon’s songs: The Last Train. Our local book store, The Hickory Stick Bookshop had a signing and I had them sign three copies: one for me, one for my friend [...]
Posted in Creativity, People, Places, Politics, Reading on Oct 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Writers in Danger Offered Safe Haven to Practice Craft in Pittsburgh Last night on the PBS NewsHour Jeffrey Brown did a piece on City of Asylum/Pittsburgh which offers writers from countries where they’re not free to write a safe haven to think and write. Residencies for Writers-in-Exile For two years we provide a furnished house, [...]
Posted in iPad, Reading on Sep 29th, 2010 1 Comment »
In Study, Children Cite Appeal of Digital Reading Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up their traditional print books. Until you can dog ear and [...]
Posted in Ideas, iPad, Reading on Sep 17th, 2010 2 Comments »
A Textbook Solution Early this year, a consortium of educational publishers, including McGraw-Hill; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; and Kaplan, signed up with ScrollMotion to produce their products for the iPad. I had a feeling this was coming. Happening on Kindle too.
Posted in Creativity, Ideas, Reading on Jul 10th, 2010 9 Comments »
Author Whose Bookstore Is the No. 2 (or 4, or 5) “Excuse me, ladies and gentleman,” he called out. “I am not begging, borrowing or asking for your food. I don’t represent the homeless, I’m not selling candy or selling bootleg DVDs,” he said, then paused. “I write books.” This story made my morning. If [...]
Posted in Events, Movies, People, Reading on Jul 9th, 2010 No Comments »
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Anniversary: Anna Quindlen On The Greatness Of Scout The book To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, this is its 50th year in print. The film was made in 1962. Every kid has had that house in the neighborhood that your friends would dare you to knock at on Halloween. [...]
Posted in Photo Printing, Reading, Social Software on May 19th, 2010 3 Comments »
CBS Legal Department Sends Cease and Desist to 48 HR Magazine Totally stupid. Give me a ###ing break CBS. It’s a great magazine. I bought a copy right away and it’s well designed (I disagree with Carr that the layouts are “somewhat rudimentary”): the design reminds me of The Whole Earth Catalog which was a [...]
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