Category Archives: Books

Lights_Camera_Scream

My favorite book, back in 1983

While rewatching Super 8 the other night — a monster-movie film about kids making a monster movie, with a feel very similar to Goonies — I remembered a book I had back in 1983 or 1984. Although I had not thought of it in years, the title, “Lights! Camera! Scream!”, and the cover art centered [...]

Two great authors and a lecture

Since getting the Kindle a few years ago, the amount of time I devote to reading has skyrocketed.  In that time, I have read a lot of great stuff, a few horrible things, and reacquainted myself, through rereading, to familiar yet forgotten works.  In that time, a couple of new (at least, new to me) [...]

Spines

The more I stare at the spines of the books resting, untouched for years, on my wall of shelving, the more I realize I may never open them again.  As more and more of them become available on iDevices and eReaders, I tend to reacquire the titles in digital format.  Part of me is sad [...]

WikiLeaks-Split

WikiPub 1.1

This is just a quick note to point folks to the 1.1 update of WikiPub.  This is an incremental update that adds two options: By default, the WikiLeaks cables are split apart into separate ebooks, one per year, instead of one monolithic book.  The size of the single book made some readers sluggish.  There’s an [...]

moleskine on ipad

My reverse iPad/Moleskine hack

I have seen plenty of “iPad Moleskine hacks” out there that all boil down to attacking a Moleskine with an X-Acto blade and inserting your iPad inside, rendering the Moleskine’s quality as being a blank book useless.  The DODOcase is a professionally made iPad case that has perfected the Moleskine-like look.  I really like the [...]

The Twitterverse answers my comic book question

As a kid, I never got into comic books all that much.  I suspect that the only comics I ever read were the free Whiz Kids comics from Radio Shack.  Seriously.  When the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie was on the horizon, I picked up the graphic novel upon which it was based.  I love [...]

Migrating from Kindle to iPad: An Illustrated DRM Primer

Over the weekend I made a tweet that several people asked about: Basically, they wanted to know how to convert DRM protected Kindle books over to ePub books that will work on the iPad.  I love the fact that Amazon was able to release a Kindle app for the iPad on the very first day, [...]

Twilight? You mean the ELO hit?

Before about six months ago, I had never heard of Twilight.  Now I see it everywhere.  Between Linda Mercury’s analysis on of the archetype of Bella (and actually, her whole series of posts loosely titled “In defense of Twilight, even though I hate it“) and Lucy Knisley’s distillation of each book into four-panel comic strips [...]

Kindle versus paper: a pictorial

I have had a Kindle for a few months now and really enjoy it.  I have been reading like I’ve never read before!  The size and convenience are great and, for many texts, far outweighs the longevity and space requirements of paper books (even though I love having shelves and shelves of book spines to [...]