Kindle 2.0 coming

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This year’s must have Christmas item? Read more..

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

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar by Cathcart and Klein. Philosophy lite. A diverting bathroom book, no more. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. A parable ... Read more..

June Books

Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

We Disappear by Scott Heim. Drug addict son returns to small-town childhood home to care for dying mother and unwrap the mysteries of her life. Some bizzare ... Read more..

Great Books series

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Marginal Revolution: Who should be bounced from The Great Books series? — another useful list of potential books to read. Sadly I was required to take exactly 2 humanities ... Read more..

Trying to force textile to point to kindle editions

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I use textile to create all my book links in the blog. as a reader pointed out, this unfortunately doesn’t link very directly to the kindle edition of books. ... Read more..

Recent Nonfiction

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Story of French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau. Interesting to a casual student of language, the contrast between the active central management of French and the organic unmanaged nature ... Read more..

Japanese Book Recos

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Over at Marginal Revolution. Unfortunately none of them have Kindle editions Read more..

How to find new books to read

Friday, May 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A list of pointers — like I need more ideas. My Kindle is stuffed and i have a hundred physical books awaiting me… Read more..

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

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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

Raymond’s reading list: The Mythical Man-Month, The Design of Everyday Things, and Systemantics

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Great recos from Raymond — The Old New Thing : Raymond’s reading list: The Mythical Man-Month, The Design of Everyday Things, and Systemantics — I’ve never read the last but ... Read more..

Cutting things

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

What is Craft ROBO? :Craft ROBO-GRAPHTEC — cutting paper and other sheets. cool. Ponoko puzzles. love the idea of ponoko Book cutting. Huh. Didn’t know about this form ... Read more..

Beach Books — Camouflage, The Peshawar Lancers, Darkest Feat

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Camouflage by Joe Haldeman. Eh, not adding to the reputation of the haldeman name. Aliens secretly among us. Kind of silly and pointless and honestly not well ... Read more..

Recent Airplane Reads

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Been on planes a lot recently — first installment of reviews here — the Kindle is awesome while flying Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry. Period mystery set in Buckingham ... Read more..

Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Amazon.com: Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us by Robert Buckman. Fun book about the vast number of helpful, benign, and dangerous critters that live on and in ... Read more..

Recent Nonfiction Books — The Geography of Bliss, The Thing About Life…, An Army At Dawn, Silver Spoon Kids

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner. A solid book exploring the nature of happiness; community, sharing, connections, a sense of a greater purpose, and a laid back ... Read more..

Sci-fi guru Clarke dies in Sri Lanka at 90

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sci-fi guru Clarke dies in Sri Lanka at 90 — sad. My lifelong passion for reading was kickstarted by Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert — all gone. Not all ... Read more..

Recent Books

Monday, March 10th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Darkmans by Nicola Barker. This tale is strangely engrossing. Very long. The author challenges you with structure and plot all over the place. One of ... Read more..

The Kindle — changing my life.

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 ... Read more..

Recent Books — Feb 4 2008

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Ghost Brigades by John scalzi. Ok most of the way thru, kind of Forever War -ish. The denouement is a little weak, a little too ... Read more..

Latest books

Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. Trying to understand Russian culture but this book didn’t do it for me, gave up after 15% or so. Mindless trudging thru minutiae ... Read more..

Recent Books

Monday, January 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Kindle has clearly helped me push my reading pace up. Particularly for classics which are cheap. I am at the point now where I look first for ... Read more..

Kindle hacking

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Reversing Everything: Hacking the Kindle part 3: root shell and runtime system — minesweeper! photo viewer! screencap! easter egg! all kinds of great stuff here. Read more..

What’s on your Kindle?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Love the Kindle. Love love love the integration with Amazon.com and the wireless downloading. Mine is stuffed with classics — they are generally cheap on Amazon. I am reading ... Read more..

Christmas gift awesomeness

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Kindle is awesome. The awesomeness is due to the wireless delivery of books. And the fact that I can browse Amazon at my PC and direct books ... Read more..

Recent Books

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My book reading has slowed to a crawl the second half of this year. Work, Family, Halloween, BioShock, all conspired to limit my time. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson. ... Read more..