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 nothing ground-breaking – simply a pretty cool interface to present the book recommendations provided by Amazon and LibraryThing in a unique, streamlined fashion.
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 story and the convenience of always having a book with me in a very compact form. I also just finished “Free: The Future of A Radical Price” […]
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 which I'm reproducing here in its entirety because it's such a great summary of how copyright should work in a sane and rational world: THE COPYRIGHT THING […]
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 digital age.
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 by statisticians who studied 50 years' worth of bestseller data encompassing over 700 titles from 1954 to 2004. They compared the attributes of these titles against a […]
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 feared this would make getting a signed book no more special than getting a package from UPS.)
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 same – one of the best books I've read (and re-read) in the past year or two.
Ask.Reddit has some interesting responses to the question “If you could read one book again for the first time, what would it be?” Hmm, one book? There are a few that pop into my head and it's pretty hard to pick just one. Whenever asked the other impossible-to-answer book question, “What's your favourite book of […]
Pretty good technique…is there anything this man can't do?(Thanks to Pam J. for the link via Facebook)
I've mentioned one of the all-time most popular Ask Metafilter threads on this blog before – “What childhood experience most shaped who you are today?” It's a a great one that I go back to with some regularity, and especially now that I have a child of my own. A few months back, I was […]
