Hi all. I'm Jonathan. I'll be assisting Regis with the site, trying my best to blog in a decent and timely manner and generally attempting to improve my writing and my experience with online things. Over on Echoes of Nonsense you have my MMO/WAR blog. Anything else, feel free to comment, to email or if you are really clever, hunt down my Facebook.
Oh dear. I made a possibly awful awful mistake. I touched something.
We’ve talked before about the choice between Paper and Plastic and the e-volution of the e-book genre. For me personally, I never thought I would end up getting an e-reader. Right now in my day to day life I work with a PC, carry a netbook and have a PC at home. I have a quite reasonable phone that I am sure I could get an e-book onto if I really wanted, assuming that I don’t simply use the various other computers I have access to. There are Kindle and nook [...]
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Twitter Tidbit for one and all from Jim Butcher.
The Dresden Files book 12, Changes, is now finished!
FINISHED! BWAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAAAAAAAH!
4:48 AM Jan 4th from TweetDeck
First and foremost, Happy New Year everyone!
I hope you had a wonderful time and here’s to 2010 and all that lays before us.
It being a New Year, it is of course time to talk about the future and in particular e-books. Yes again, don’t give me that look. Specifically I’d like to talk about the perception of e-books and readers and mention some of the hurdles ahead. Part of this comes from two articles Regis linked me to and part of it is from good old personal experience.
Starting with the articles we have two big ones in the e-lit world, [...]
Or for the rest of you, come have a look.
The wedded writing duo of Jim Butcher and Shannon K. Butcher have quite a few tidbits for you.
The Dresden Files, for those of you who do not know, are an ongoing series about a professional wizard in modern-day Chicago
Have you an awful book that you are reading? Or is it simply a stinker of a story that you’ve heard about?
Do you want to torture me and get book reviews at the same time? If you have answered yes to any of those, here is your chance to share the pain ladies and gents.
Once a month I am going to throw myself on the literary sword (as opposed to a literal one) and order into the local library, download or otherwise lay my hands on whatever really bad book you choose to inflict upon me. I am sure we can throw up [...]
Some of you may be reading this entry on an iPhone or other PDA. Some may have found the few moments at a computer to cast their eye over the site. Alot of the busy world probably does the majority of their reading on a display, as such we have the question.
Paper or Plastic?
