A Momentary Taste of Being

Rebel with a Cause : Liberal Satire in Postwar America

Eliot's Wasteland hits the media age

iPads at Pompeii

Confessions of an E-Book Convert I've been a long-term unashamed e-book reader.  I read them on PDAs. So I'm ecstatic with the huge and lovely screen offered by my iPad.

Rooting your Nook I guess this falls into the category of  "Because I could."  I'm not certain that I fully understand the attraction of doing this given that tablets are not all that much expensive to start with and they are undoubtedly going to become more affordable.

Getting Rich with Kindle Publishing

E-book Piracy

Marginalia in the electronic age At first I thought, well this is a no-brainer, one can easily annotate most texts under most e-book readers.  But the question is not the making of the marginalia, but the preservation of them under the rapidly changing protocols of internet delivery, etc.  This is essentially a librarian/curator problem and as such, it is fascinating.

NYT to start reporting eBook bestsellers

MIT Open Courseware iPhone App

"The Way We Read Now." I think I find myself on this blogger's side.  I carry with me books from the library--hefty volumes that I want the pleasure of marking up and conversing with.  And then, I have on my iPad thousands of other books.  Books to dip into during a moment of leisure time--books to look at, savor, and enjoy for their contents but not for their sheer reality as books--a hefty chunk of artificial reality. Books are wonderful, but what is more wonderful is the ability to read--anywhere, anytime, almost anything.

Apps for reading on the web

Between two ways of rejecting technology or should it be seen as embracing life?

Who Wrote the Book of Love --Lee Seigel So far these have been high-quality and worthwhile reading.

Kindle tops pb sales I welcome the ability to carry thousands of books wherever I go--to have Ulysses with me at all times of day, to be able to consult Wordsworth, Keats, Donne, Herrick, Vaughn, Crashaw, and countless others in ways that I would never have thought possible a few years ago. Even so, I love the real book as well--the paper and the ink and the binding and the smell.  But, on a trip to Dublin, given a choice between the two, it's hand's down my thousands in an e-reader.

Apps for E-Reading

An App for iPad detailing human rights stories

Wikipedia told

e-Books and Libraries

The iPad and Business Travel --I'm not quite there yet; and being a very heavy user I would have to have the charger with me.  But I discovered on my last trip to Dublin I could have left the monster machine behind, almost.  I've got to pick up a couple of apps for spreadsheet and wordprocessing work--but the iPad has become (almost) my machine of choice.  The lack of viability for Flash, however, is a serious downside to much of what I want to do--so many of the Android machines seem to have appeal.  Hope Apple backs off of a stand that really isn't viable.  Did they really think the internet was going to bow to their odd decree?  I suppose only dwindling market share will reveal the problem. Saw an advertisement for the iPad in which it noted you could multitask.  Unless the new OS adds this, I would say that the claim is, at best, an exaggeration.  Still, with the right apps, it is sufficient for most business needs, and I want to move it int...