On the way home, I’m telling a friend about the book I’m reading. When I end my 30-second review, I catch myself. I usually wrap up any enthusing about a book with I can lend it to you when I’m done… I can’t lend this to anyone. My Special Topics in Calamity Physics is in Sony’s proprietary format. If had some other kind of e-ink device, they couldn’t read it. Even if they had a Reader, I couldn’t lend it to them. I would be breaking the law, violating the license that goes along with the book.
BookNet Canada E-Reading Challenge IV: If This Is the Future, Why Do I Feel Like a Dork?
The London Book Fair is a hypersocial time for me. Lots of people to catch up with, meetings all day. Trade-fair wayfinding, balancing directory, map, briefcase and much-needed coffee. Hectic and fun. But every year, after the first day, when jetlag starts to press down, between the fair meetings and the dinner meeting, I need a pub and a book and an hour or two of quiet. Except now, as I sit down to a pint of Shepherd Neame’s finest, I find myself pulling out the Reader in a crowded bar off Charing Cross Road.
I feel like a dork.
BookNet Canada E-Reading Challenge Part III: Four Hours of Reading
BookNet E-Reading Challenge Part II: Packing the Reader
Have you ever rented a cottage or stayed in an inn or hostel where owners and past guests have left books on the shelves for your reading pleasure? It is usually a mixed bag of thrillers, mysteries, romance novels, maybe some history, sometimes some real wildcards and surprises. You don’t have a lot of choice, but you do get this strange snapshot of what people read when they’re on vacation.
Getting books for the Reader at the Sony Connect store had a similar feeling.
BookNet Canada E-Reading Challenge
In the wake of the BNC Technology Forum 2007, one of the lingering frustrations for some attendees was that for all of the talk of digital reading and e-book devices, they are shockingly difficult to obtain in Canada. It’s tough to have an opinion on a device that you haven’t tried, so we decided to try them out and share the experience…
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The (Unsuspecting) Faces of Facebook
The various book-promoting applications and groups on Facebook, as well as the number of culture-hungry members of the social network, might make an investment in a Facebook Social ad seem like a great marketing venture. However, as Megan McCarty points out on the Wired blog, these ads could do just as much to alienate and confuse your fans as entice them.
