Last night I finished reading Terry Pratchett‘s latest novel, I Shall Wear Midnight. This is the fourth book in the Tiffany Aching series, set within his much larger series of “Discworld” books. This sub-series started with Tiffany at age 9 … Continue reading
I ordered my Kindle 3 WiFi-only under the rationalization that at $139, I could reasonably expect to sell my Kindle 2 at something close to that price, and since I used it almost exclusively at home, WiFi would be all … Continue reading
In a press release this morning, Amazon announced “Kindle for the Web” (beta). It provides the ability to read the first chapter or so of a print book on your web browser. This would appear to serve a couple purposes: … Continue reading
I now have another app on my Kindle to distract me from reading: “Scrabble“, published by Electronic Arts/Hasbro and available at Amazon for $4.99 (at least here in the US). It plays just like the classic board game, and allows … Continue reading
Since I own paper versions of all of Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld” books, while tempted to go Kindle for the next one, I decided I simply had to have it in a dead-tree version. I therefore pre-ordered I Shall Wear Midnight … Continue reading
I’m doing some software upgrades to this blog, so there may be some intermittent outages, strange formatting, etc. As the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy says, “Don’t panic!” I’m off to fix that right-hand column now…. PS: Yeah, I guess … Continue reading
I just received an email from the Amazon associates program (what supposedly can make me a little money if you buy something from them via links from this site, but frankly at best might pay for the web hosting if … Continue reading
According to an Amazon.com press release today, an update for the Kindle for Android app has been released, adding a number of features that allow the user to utilize additional features as those found on the Kindle devices, and to … Continue reading
“NiLuJe” has released a Kindle 3 compatible font hack today. So in addition to changing the screen-saver images, you can now also change to some different typefaces if you would like. See the MobileRead Wiki instructions for installing and using … Continue reading
Awhile back I downloaded Lois McMaster Bujold’s novella “The Mountains of Mourning” from the Baen Free Library. I quite liked it on many levels: the quality of the writing, the excellent sense of location, and the interesting, non-cliche characters and … Continue reading