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How To Find Reading Apps For The iPhone and iPad
Instead, I’m going to try a different and hopefully more approach: how can you find iPhone reading apps you want? As good a place to...
Dec 6, 20113 min read


Inception: Was it all a dream?
And, check out Kyle Johnson’s article at Psychology Today: “Inception and Philosophy: It Was All Just a Dream.” What does it mean to...
Dec 5, 20112 min read


Wired, and Thoughts on Amazon and the ebook Subscription Question
“Amazon has told publishers it is considering creating a digital-book library featuring older titles… Amazon would offer book...
Dec 3, 20113 min read


EPUB ebooks and iBooks
How To Convert ePub & PDF eBooks Into iPhone’s iBooks” It covers the three of the main methods you’ll probably use for most ebook...
Dec 2, 20111 min read


Thoughts on the Reading Experience with iBooks
First, the basics. From Apple’s iBooks page: “Start with the bookshelf to buy and read your books. With a tap, it flips around to reveal...
Dec 1, 20113 min read


So, What Happened to iBookstore?
Two of the more obvious answers are the very same things that were lingering questions from the very beginning: price and book selection....
Nov 30, 20113 min read


iPhone Apps for Writers
But sometimes, the iPhone does have its advantages over the analog method. And thanks to all of that texting and emailing practice, I’ll...
Nov 29, 20111 min read


Reading ebooks on the iPhone
The first place I’d recommend for friends is to visit Wired’s How-to: “Read E-Books on Your iPhone.” It covers all of the basic...
Nov 24, 20112 min read


Copia, ebooks, and Social Reading
Gizmodo (“The Copia eBook Platform and Hardware Get Social With eReading“) calls Copia’s social platform, “like Goodreads on steroids,...
Nov 22, 20112 min read


Google and Social Reading …?
There is some intriguing information about a new Google social reading platform AllThingsD: “It’s Called Google Propeller and It’s...
Nov 21, 20112 min read


Briefly Noted: “Redeeming Criticism”
Some thoughts on the strangeness of film criticism, courtesy of The New Yorker, “Redeeming Criticism” Â — None of this is of course...
Nov 19, 20111 min read


Why Do eBooks Have So Many Typos?
It’s tempting to blame imperfect software, but that only seems to tell part of the tale: “E-books exist in a variety of different...
Nov 18, 20112 min read


Inception and Philosophy: What the Spinning Top Might (or Might Not) Mean
Kyle Johnson has an excellent article for Psychology Today (“Inception and Philosophy: Did the Spinning Top Fall?“). It’s tempting to...
Nov 17, 20111 min read


New York Times, on cookbooks and apps
I happen to like cookbooks very much. But that fondness stems mostly from the information inside of it. When it comes to serving as an...
Nov 16, 20112 min read


Cool: Flowchart of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
Looking for new science-fiction reading, but prefer to map out your choices in decision-tree form? Well luckily for you, SF Signal...
Nov 15, 20111 min read


iPad and Reading Experience: A Guide for Readers
First things first. Says Apple: “It’s a really great read. Reading on iPad is just like reading a book. You hold iPad like a book and...
Nov 14, 20115 min read


What is BookPerk.com?
According to eBookNewser (“HarperCollins Launches Bookperk Social Reading Site“), think of it as a Groupon, for books: “Like Groupon,...
Nov 11, 20111 min read


The Future of Kobo: “definitely other stuff going forward”
Per BBC: “Japanese giant Rakuten buys Kobo ebook business” “The company also hopes to use Kobo and its popular book-themed social network...
Nov 9, 20111 min read


Psychology Today: E-Books and Forgetting What to Read
There is something about the physical presence of a book, unread, silently reproachful, that is always going to play upon our consciences...
Nov 9, 20111 min read


What is Findings.com?
Delicious, part GoodReads: Findings.com For online readers, Findings.com serves as a means “for collecting, sharing and discussing clips...
Nov 8, 20111 min read
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