Kindle hacks
I’m a week in with the Kindle, and I am thrilled with it so far. It’s a bit pricey - $399 - but Amazon got a lot right with this device. Initial reviews talked about form factor (several techies pronounced it ugly), price and Steve Jobs famously dismissed it pointing out that nobody reads anymore.
As [...]
Amazon Kindle
Can’t explain why, but lately I’m increasingly eager to buy a “Kindle”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/?tag=tins-20. Anyone have any experiences they care to share good/bad/otherwise? “Don”:http://www.donloeb.com/ is sure that the iPhone will be a great ebook experience, but I’m not so sure.
Eager to hear what you have to say…
Thoroughly enjoying The Book of Air and Shadows
I’m a few hundred pages into Michael Gruber’s The Book of Air and Shadows and am loving it. (It’s after midnight, I should be sleeping, yet I’m… not.) I think it was the presence of the word “cryptography” on the front cover (in an excerpted review from the Washington Post) that initially piqued my curiosity. [...]
Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet (3rd ed.)
I don’t spend much time in the legal world these days, but I did spend time over the past year updating a book for the American Bar Association, the “Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet”:http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=5110585. Now in its 3rd edition, it’s a book that I think will help law firms of all sizes prioritize [...]
Michael Lewis: The Blind Side
Michael Lewis was one of this week’s “Authors @Google”:http://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks (that link should have his visit online in a few days), and I’m really glad I went. I picked up a copy of his most recent book, “The Blind Side”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/039306123X/ref=nosim/tins-20 and finished it tonight: it’s as good a book as you’ll read this year. It’s ostensibly [...]
Matt Cutts liked Daemon
Courtesy of a “recommendation”:http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/good-summer-vacation-books/#comment-103858 a couple weeks ago, Matt Cutts ordered a copy of “Daemon”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/library/leinad-zeraus/daemon/ and so far, it’s “his favorite”:http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/now-were-talking/ of the summer books he’s read.
Rock on.
C.C. liked Daemon
Go read “C.C.’s review”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2007/04/18/recommended-books.php#comment-152306 of Daemon. Steven Vore “also liked it”:http://steven.vorefamily.net/2007/04/22/daemon/.
Next up, “Matt Cutts”:http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/good-summer-vacation-books/#comment-103858 bought a copy for his summer vacation.
I’m a man on a mission. If you are reading this blog, chances are you like tech. You will love this book.
Recommended books
A feature I had on the site about a year ago was the “Now Reading plugin”:http://robm.me.uk/projects/plugins/wordpress/now-reading/ which gave me an easy way to use WordPress to manage the books I was interested in, a way to log my thoughts on the books as I read them, and a neat archive of the books I’d read. [...]
Daemon
A little over a month ago, I got an e-mail from a marketing person at a small publisher in California. We have a book we think you’ll like, she said. Can we send you a copy? she asked.
Now, I’ve received a handful of these e-mails in the past few years. I have a blog that [...]
Learning digital photography
A few weeks ago I asked for pointers to help get up to speed on digital photography. Now that I have a “real” camera (with each day, I find yet another incredible feature of my D50; if you’re in the market for a digital SLR, you could do much, much worse), I’m really eager to [...]
