As many of you may be aware, the deadline for app developers to comply with Apple’s new competition stifling rules is the end of this month. So far, no changes are evident in either the Amazon Kindle for iOS app or even the Barnes & Noble Nook app. While it would seem odd for this [...]
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Boy At The End of the World (MG)
Posted by on June 30th, 2011
The Boy at the End of the World. Greg van Eekhout. 2011. Bloomsbury. 224 pages. This is what he knew:His name was Fisher.The world was dangerous.He was alone.And that was all. I definitely enjoyed Greg van Eekhout’s The Boy At The End of the World. If you like survival stories or action-adventure stories or post-apocalyptic [...]
How Amazon Can Handle Their Kindle Spam Problem
Posted by on June 29th, 2011
As the Kindle Store is bombarded with countless titles of little or no value to potential purchasers, Amazon has to be wondering what can be done to keep this situation from casting a bad light on the whole Kindle brand. It’s still a great device with an impressive attached store, but who wants to have [...]
To Dream in The City of Sorrows
Posted by on June 29th, 2011
To Dream in the City of Sorrows. (Babylon 5: Book #9). Kathryn M. Drennan. Based on the series by J. Michael Straczynski. 1997. Random House. 352 pages. From the prologue: Marcus Cole walked with a limp, a fact that did not go unnoticed by the young Minbari acolyte as Marcus entered the small temple. Marcus [...]
Kindle Culture
Posted by on June 28th, 2011
Stephen Peters, a longtime popular culture writer, has a book called Kindle Culture that I think is worth reading. It is a quick read, and has a lighthearted, easygoing writing style. It is interesting to read how the Kindle has changed lives. I was particularly intrigued with the story about how one woman was able [...]
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Posted by on June 28th, 2011
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. Dorothy L. Sayers. 1928/1995. HarperCollins. 256 pages. “What in the world, Wimsey, are you doing in this Morgue?” demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the “Evening Banner” with the air of a man released from an irksome duty. Lord Peter Wimsey’s skills will be tested in The Unpleasantness at The [...]
Stallman vs Amazon Kindle: Are eBooks Bad?
Posted by on June 27th, 2011
The idea that print books and the Kindle were in opposition has been around pretty much as long as there’s been a Kindle. In fact, if you go back far enough, you can find people talking about the impending end of the written word pretty much since there was the option to view words on [...]
Sunday Salon: Week in Review #26
Posted by on June 26th, 2011
What I Reviewed at Becky’s Book Reviews The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic. Jennifer Trafton. With illustrations by Brett Helquist. 2010. Penguin. 352 pages.The Rumpelstiltskin Problem. Vivian Vande Velde. 2000. Houghton Mifflin. 116 pages. William’s Midsummer Dreams. Zilpha Keatley Snyder. 2011. Simon & Schuster. 224 pages.Small Acts of Amazing Courage. Gloria Whelan. 2011. Simon [...]
Destination Kindle Travel Guides
Posted by on June 26th, 2011
Do you like to travel? I try to go somewhere new every year, and I know that carrying around all of those thick travel books can be annoying at times. There is a new set of travel guides available now for the Kindle called Destination. Northstar Travel Media and RosettaBooks have joined forces to create [...]
Nemesis
Posted by on June 25th, 2011
Nemesis. Agatha Christie. 1971/2011. HarperCollins. 304 pages. In the afternoons it was the custom of Miss Jane Marple to unfold her second newspaper. I wouldn’t say that it’s essential that you read A Caribbean Mystery before reading Nemesis. But. If you have read it, you might appreciate Nemesis more. Nemesis opens with Miss Marple reading [...]
