Daily Archives: 11 June 2013

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Sick Again

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Hi all – I have been trying to keep the Blog going in recent days despite being ill again – however, as I continue to get worse it is probably wise to have a complete break for the rest of the week and get as much sleep as I can.

I have had pneumonia 3 times since November last year (twice in November and once last month) and have come down sick again. Thought I was improving over the last couple of days but have once again developed the ‘shiver me timbers (chills and fever)’ tonight. So I plan to be away from the keyboard for the rest of the week in a bid to finally get over all of this illness. I apologise for the interruption to Blog posts in the mean time.

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Soon you’ll be able to read iBooks on your Mac

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Starting this fall, Apple’s iBooks are no longer limited to reading on iPhones and iPads. The iBookstore is getting its own dedicated Mac app with the launch of the new OSX Mavericks operating system, Apple (s AAPL) announced at its WWDC conference in San Francisco Monday.

Users will be able to purchase and read books directly from the Mac app. (There are now 1.8 million titles in the iBookstore, Apple said, up from 1.5 million in October 2012.) The app could be particularly useful for students, who could have a textbook open on their computer while they take notes.

Amazon (s AMZN) has Kindle reading apps for PC and Mac, though you can’t purchase ebooks through the apps. Nook (s BKS) has a Windows (s MSFT) 8 app that allows purchasing and reading, but doesn’t have a Mac app.

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Article: Read to Improve Life

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The link below is to a very useful article about how reading can improve your life.

For more visit:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/12-scientific-ways-reading-can-actually-improve-your-life

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Article: Amazon Bashing and All the Moaning

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The link below is to a very good article concerning the publishing industry and Amazon – well worth a read.

For more visit:
http://www.futurebook.net/content/book-industry-stop-moaning-and-be-creative-tomchalmers

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Article: Ebook Reading is Fine

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There has been plenty of debate about the pros and cons of reading via an ebook reader and the article linked to below removes one of the many ‘mythological’ reasons many people dislike ebook reading – well, it does for reasonable people anyway.

For more visit:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/e-readers-dont-cut-down-on-reading-comprehension/