The link below is to an article that reports on Norway’s national library and its attempt to digitalize every book published in that country.
For more visit:
http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/national-library-of-norway-digitizing-all-books-published-in-norway
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the art of cheap ebook reading.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-secret-to-ereading-on-the-cheap/
The links below are to two separate articles dealing with book fanatics of both the traditional form and the digital form.
For more visit:
– http://bookriot.com/2013/12/11/dont-care-dogear-pages-confessions-failed-book-fanatic/
– http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/confessions-of-an-ebook-fanatic/
The link below is to an article that takes a look at one of the newest ‘branches’ of literature – cli-fi.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/cli-fi/how-and-why-sci-fi-gave-birth-to-cli-fi/
I have had some surgery in recent times and while everything seems to be going OK, healing well and all the rest, I have been finding some difficulty while sitting at the computer – so I have been easing off on the posts in recent times. I expect this will continue for the next couple of weeks or perhaps a bit longer than that. I don’t intend to stop posting completely, but there will be far fewer posts during this period. One or two Blogs that I have will receive no posts during this time, while one or two others will continue to receive the same number of posts throughout this period. However, it is all a bit of a daily thing as to just how many posts I upload.
So all is going well, but a bit of a break and rest is needed to ensure a full recovery. Thanks all 🙂
Most of the Twitter response to Amazon(s amzn) CEO Jeff Bezos’ star turn on 60 Minutes focused on Amazon’s plans to offer drone delivery of small packages in the not-too-far-off-but-unspecified future.
Bezos showed off the small helicopter like devices, actually octocopters, to the always credulous Charlie Rose and no doubt they are cool — although you have to wonder what could possibly go wrong. This meaty tidbit reaffirms what Gigaom’s Signe Brewster reported earlier, that consumer drones are coming and nothing screams “consumer” like Amazon’s retail services.
Still, the biggest surprise for me came when Bezos, unprompted, referred to the planned cloud that Amazon Web Services is building for the CIA as a private cloud. He didn’t even stumble on the word. Funny, since at AWS Re:invent last month, top AWS execs Andy Jassy and Adam Selipsky went to great pains to not characterize that installment as a private cloud. That’s…
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The link below is to a book review of ‘Sybil,’ by Benjamin Disraeli.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/02/sybil-benjamin-disraeli-100-best-novels
The link below is to a book review of ‘The Library – A World History,’ by James WP Campbell and Will Pryce.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/01/library-world-history-campbell-pryce-review
The link below is to an article that considers the culling of books – where to start? Indeed, can you start?
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/nov/29/getting-rid-of-old-books
The link below is to an article that takes a look at reading for pleasure.
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