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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008We in the book industry should be well enough read to know the maxim: history repeats.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting story about a new movement among students to scan textbooks into PDFs to share across P2P (peer to peer) networks. Publishers are, of course, furious. They’ve enlisted outside legal agents [...]
Top three ways to get from Biblio.com to Nigeria
Monday, June 30th, 20081. I didn’t realize it last week, but for me the next few days were going to revolve around Nigeria. Before last week, if someone mentioned Nigeria to me, sadly, the first thing that would pop to mind was usually credit card fraud.
2. With that unhappy association in mind, I was delighted when a [...]
Steal this e-book
Thursday, June 26th, 2008I’ve never liked the idea of electronic text as a replacement for the printed book. I borrowed a Kindle e-book reader from a friend recently, and whether of not it was my prejudice, I found it pretty much a neat toy, but not a viable way to read a book.
This morning, driving into work, [...]
Summer gardening
Thursday, June 19th, 2008I love helping things grow. I admit it, I’m a pretty superficial gardener. I like to grow things you can eat. If you can’t eat it, but it grows large (sunflowers, gourds, and pumpkins and such - no one at my house eats pumpkins), that’s OK too. Gardening is very much [...]
Spam for breakfast
Thursday, June 5th, 2008It’s the beginning of the work day, and the first job for the day is going through the hundreds of new emails to get rid of spam. The volume of Spam email that manages to get through the spam filters is amazing. I’ve become a connoisseur of sales pitches in broken English, and a collector [...]
Where has all the Sci-Fi gone?
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008First off, a confession. I grew up reading science fiction, and have read lots of it. There are different types of reading. I’ve read a lot of non-fiction for strictly education purposes, because I had to, or because I was interested in the subject. I frequently read literature because I like [...]
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