Another Way Around Censorship
I've been following the Sherry Jones story pretty closely - where Random House cancelled the title "Jewel of Medina", a novel about... The Ladies' Club
So I was at the nail salon recently, getting groomed for the week, and as the manicurist was snipping off a metric ton of dead cuticle from my... New Life
Over the weekend, the goddessly Tess (assisted by Hero Hamid) gave birth to Nou Alipour, a gorgeous little girl. Tess is largely responsible for... PDFs and Kindles
I'm working on a couple of projects that involve more than a passing familiarity with XML - I don't need to write actual code but I do need to... I want candy
Content the Kindle could be selling, but isn't:The Gawker blogs. Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Defamer, Jezebel, and Deadspin. Not having the Gawker... Of books and Kindles
Books never lose battery. Kindle conversion experience
Right, then, I bought this Kindle.I have to say, I was skeptical. Really skeptical. A small laptop, an iPhone-like device - I could see a whole... Just bought a Kindle
I keep hearing raves. Despite my instincts, despite my hesitations, despite the fact that I haven't seen one on the subway yet. I am skeptical.But... More on Google and librarianship
On the Read 2.0 listserv a couple of days ago, Jeff Ubois commented (and gave me permission to share) on the problem of Viacom demanding... New CEO at B&T
Baker & Taylor has replaced former CEO Richard Lewis with Thomas I. Morgan, former CEO of Hughes Supply, a construction supply firm. Apparently... Thomas M. Disch
I was shocked this morning to read in Shelf Awareness that SF writer Thomas M. Disch committed suicide over the holiday weekend. He was 68.When I... Google Library
This, from the Wall Street Journal, this morning:Last week, in the context of Viacom’s $1 billion copyright suit against Google’s... On ISBNs
Hot topic these days. Weirdest thing I ever did see. At any rate, in response to my newsletter piece, "ISBNs for Everything", I received... Thinking about ebooks
A listserv discussion sent me off on a tangent yesterday with not much of a place to put these thoughts. We were talking about ebooks, and someone... New computer
It's astonishing how disruptive it is. I keep all my files on an external hard drive - the computer itself just contains applications. But of...