Feb
24
The Etch-a-Sketch for Grown Ups…
February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
It’s time to legitimize my eBook complaints and praises. I’ve finally, actually read some things on both the Kindle and the Nook. I was really surprised by the “etch-a-sketch” technology on the reading surfaces of both of these eReaders (this ingenius black-and-white display technology was developed by E Ink.) As a result, reading on them [...]
Feb
17
book (s)news
February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Hello readers and welcome to a book “news” post. I tend to offer book news when I’ve decided that eBooks are tiresome to complain about, or when my muse is drunk on mint juleps in Palm Springs. The problem is, this week there is a whole lot of news on books written by people, who, [...]
Feb
11
The Ghost of Mrs. Muse
February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Pardon the pun in my title, but have you seen your muse lately? I seem to have lost mine. It’s Valentine’s weekend, a month and a half into the year that is supposed to be the year for creating everything I’ve ever wanted to write, and I still have not seen any muse dust falling [...]
Feb
3
Musings on The Nature of A Book
February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
I was going to report on the iPad, but doesn’t it already seem sort of old hat, some shiny apparatus on which folks are able to read books while at the same time searching for their ex-boyfriend’s house in Google street view? If we were going to be really industrious, wouldn’t we go all old [...]