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The Nook dude at the Barnes&Nobles looked forlorn today

  • Posted on April 6, 2010
  • by john

How bad would it be to be a Nook pusher right now? The Kindle has its adherents, the iPad is out there, why would anyone buy a Nook? I have…

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Three failures — Kindle, MacBook, Google Docs

  • Posted on March 29, 2010March 29, 2010
  • by john

Yesterday was a brutal technology day. First, I wedged my Kindle between my rear and a chair and heard a nasty “crack”. My Kindle display has a nice shattery image…

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Books — Enclave, Heart-Shaped Box, Inspector Cadaver, The Last Colony

  • Posted on July 9, 2009
  • by john

* “Enclave”:amazon by Kit Reed. A wellmeaning nutjob tries to create a perfect closed society, which of course fails totally due to Murphy’s Law, hubris, and selfishness. Amazon says 4…

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Books — In a Sunburned Country, Empires of the Sea, Tycoon's War, Suffer the Little Children

  • Posted on March 10, 2009
  • by john

* “In a Sunburned Country”:amazon by Bill Bryson. Humorous Australian travelogue. Easy breezy read. * “Empires of the Sea”:amazon by Roger Crowley. More than you ever wanted to know about…

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Kindle 2 — already delivered in Ohio

  • Posted on February 25, 2009
  • by john

Amazon.com: Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation): Kindle Store. – damn my family has theirs already. Apparently all shipped out of Indianapolis and so Midwest buyers already…

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Recent Books — Matter, The Creator's Map

  • Posted on February 24, 2009
  • by john

* “Matter”:amazon by Iain M. Banks. Solid far future science fiction set in the author’s Culture universe. First I’ve read in this setting, interesting characters tho mostly dead by bookend.…

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The Black Swan

  • Posted on August 31, 2008
  • by john

“The Black Swan”:amazon by Nassim Nichoias Taleb. Been on the shelf for a while, finally read it at the urging of one of my smartest friends. A quirky and insightful…

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Recent books — Watchmen, Customer's Yachts, Broken Angels, GI Biomechanics

  • Posted on August 25, 2008
  • by john

* “Watchmen”:amazon by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Wow, excellent. Better as a graphic novel than it could have been as a book, the use of text and font and…

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Recent Books — An American Tragedy, Beginner's Greek, Big Russ and Me

  • Posted on August 13, 2008
  • by john

* “An American Tragedy”:amazon by Theodore Dreiser. A compelling story of overreaching ambition, lust, and tragedy. But oh my gosh could it have used an editor — needs to be…

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The Enzyme Factor, One False Move, and other recent books

  • Posted on July 21, 2008
  • by john

* “Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar”:amazon by Cathcart and Klein. Philosophy lite. A diverting bathroom book, no more. * “The Alchemist”:amazon by Paulo Coelho. A parable about…

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Amazon Unbox rental — never again

  • Posted on June 23, 2008
  • by john

Rented a flick on Amazon Unbox last night — it downloaded fine to my Tivo and it looked fine, but the 24 hour exploding limitation is beyond stupid. We regularly…

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Recent Books: Thirteen, Monsters of Templeton, Glasshouse, Ghost War

  • Posted on May 6, 2008
  • by john

More airplane reads, I have been doing a lot of air travel: * “The Ghost War”:amazon by Alex Berenson. Good cloak and dagger tale, china and the us brought to…

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The Kindle — changing my life.

  • Posted on February 27, 2008
  • by john

Excellent review here — agree with most of it. The integrated wireless and the Amazon.com integration make this thing sing. It has completely changed my reading and my buying habits…

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