From Teleread: Why I won’t buy more Nook Books
From Tate Hallaway (the author of one of my favorite paranormal mysteries, Precinct 13), a interesting blog enty: The Joys of Obscurity. If you liked the novel and also like serials, she is doing a follow up on Wattpad called Unjust Cause.
From The Bookseller: The Kindle Cloud Reader arrives in the UK
Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news.
From Open Culture: Read 9 books by Noam Chomsky for free online
From Digital Book World: WOWIO launches ad-supported e-book app with 350,000 Ingram titles
From Ars Technica: Google Glass gives deaf an ASL interpreter
I missed this, but yesterday marked the 107th birthday of Rachael Carson, author of Silent Spring, the book credited with launching the environmental movement.
Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news.
From the Goodereader: The evolution of the Kobo ereader in pictures
From Teleread: Let’s Stop the e-book judging
From Digital Book World: Lock: Like the NeRD, a read-only ereader
From The Digital Reader: Feedbooks acquires Aldiko
I am deliberately choosing not to talk about the Amazon – Hachette controversy. I am not without an opinion on the matter, but there is plenty of bias out there on both sides. The story is obviously receiving plenty of coverage….
Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news.
Some days I find some killer deals on e-books. Today’s find is CABAL by Clive Barker. The book was the basis for the horror movie Nightbreed. The book is only 99 cents at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo. (Sorry IOS users, it was listed at $4.99 on iTunes at the time of this writing.)
From Recode: Recycling Old Electronics
From eBookReader.com Blog: A first look at the Navy eReader Device (NeRD) with video
From the Amazon Media Room: The most well-read cities in America
From Goodreads: New Ask an Author feature
Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news.
I am renaming the News of the Day category to the Daily Links.
When I first envisioned the News of the Day category, I had intended to feature a few stories from the day with a brief commentary about them. I generally draft a post in the morning and add links as the day goes on. Due to other writing projects and time constraints, lately I haven’t always been able to get back to write the commentary and still post the links while the stories are still relevant. I feel the category change will more accurately reflect the actual content. 🙂
From the Goodereader: E-books aren’t books for tax purposes
From NPR The Two-Way: BookNews – Jesus’ copyright and literature on paper cups
From MakeUseOf: Five fantastic short stories to read FREE online
From Vacuosminx: A reader manifesto
From Teleread: Indie titles are coming to OverDrive via Smashwords
Today, Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a Certified Refurbished Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ with 4G LTE coverage for $80 off. It comes in both 32GB and 64 GB versions. I believe these were unavailable new the last time I looked into buying one….
Several caveats here:
I get asked a lot for tips and tricks and how-to information, so I thought I would add a category where I could post small bits of information that wouldn’t normally be substantial or long enough for a traditional blog entry.
So, to start:
Did you know that your Kindle reads every book and document you put on it? It does this so that it can index every word and make them searchable. It does this even if you add the books yourself (a process called sideloading). The indexing process can take a while, especially if you add a large number of books. It really drains the battery, making it very important to keep your e-reader plugged in when you have just added new books. So don’t fill your e-reader right before a cruise or a long flight – otherwise, your battery may let you down. 😦
If you are a fan of urban fantasy, you might be interested in Amazon’s Deal of the Day today. Amazon is offering the first seven of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series for just $1.99 each. This is a great price; the books normally run much higher. The books are also on sale today at Barnes and Noble for the NOOK and at the Kobo store.
This is a delightful series if you enjoy the genre. Harry Dresden is Chicago’s only professional Wizard. I first watched TV series, which led me to the books. Now, I always visualize Paul Blackthorne as Harry. Personally, I find them especially delightful as I live in Northwest Indiana and am quite familiar with Chicago and the surrounding area. One of the books actually had a scene set in the city where I live! 🙂
The eBook Evangelist 