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Design Your Own Cover For The New Douglas Coupland Book (Which Is A "Generation X" Sequel)

*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping

Friday Fun Link – Guess The Famous Novels From Their Opening Lines (August 21, 2009)

I got 12/16 and once I saw the four I missed, realised I probably should've got 16/16.  If you want a hint, mouseover the following text…the site fills

Friday Fun Link – BookSeer (August 14, 2009)

Some of the folks on MetaFilter are reporting bugs but after a few trials (admittedly with fairly well-known and recent books), I had no problems with BookSeer.  It's

The Tipping Point For E-Books?

As I mentioned before, the first book I downloaded to read on my new iPhone is “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow.  I'm quite enjoying it – both the

Cory Doctorow on Copyright

Because Cory Doctorow's new novel, “Little Brother” is the first e-book I'm reading on my iPhone (very readable, thank-you very much), I got to see his copyright notice

Turning the Page In A Digital Age

A recent Globe & Mail article on Indigo's current practices and strategies provides a lot of ideas about what public libraries will have to consider in an increasingly

Friday Fun Link – You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover – But Can You By Its Title? (July 3, 2009)

Print-on-demand web site, Lulu.com has a service that helps project how well your book will do based solely on its title.  The algorithm was developed exclusively for Lulu

Friday Fun Link – "This Bespells Doom" – Authors Signing Kindles (June 26, 2009)

If Jeff Bezos was smart, he'd have incorporated a stylus right into the design of the Kindle so authors could “sign” their digital books.  (Of course, maybe they

Friday Fun Link – A Trailer For "The Road" (May 22, 2009)

I haven't looked this forward to a movie since probably “Batman: Dark Knight” which completely lived up to my expectations plus more.  I hope this one does the

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