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34 Greg Dean 05-07-2012 08:27 AM ET (US) Edit Delete I love feeling a thick book in my hand. But then I also love the feel of new technology such as an iPad or tablet. One strange thing to be is that I feel like I value books less with say, a kindle, or iPad, because they seem to be too easy to access and then too cheap. Sure I love cheape. I wish everything was cheap. But it was funny that I realised that in my mind I valued literature less when it was virtual. HOWEVER, the other day I borrowed a friends kindle for a long weekend to my home town. On the plane I picked it up and kept reading. SThe screen made it feel like an actual book. Pretty cool. has anyone ever considered audio books too? My sisters friend is blind and she loves them. I find that I spend a lot of time in my car, so I turn it up. Usually for me it is self-help material. I want to submit a site I buy from that maybe you will like (if that is ok?) http://www.sonicaudiobooks.com/ Take a look and tell me your thoughts. Cheers!   Spam messages 33-30 deleted by QuickTopic between 08-30-2010 07:25 AM and 06-25-2008 02:26 AM 29 young models 05-23-2008 04:18 PM ET (US) It's a pleasant surprise to find a sanctury from all that modern inane garbage they call music. 28 Ray 08-27-2007 05:18 PM ET (US) I’d like to post a review of BooksShouldBeFree.com, a site I found that is very well laid out. It has only around 100 eBooks but they are the 100 most popular books in the public domain. Also, the site has photos of every book so you can be sure of what you're downloading. As the website's name suggests (BooksShouldBeFree.com), all mp3 audio book downloads are free. 27 Bookninja 01-16-2006 08:27 PM ET (US) Free book a day The Mad Professor points out Project Gutenberg now has an RSS feed listing its new titles. Home 26 Bookninja 01-16-2006 10:01 AM ET (US) I say we must take a stand now! Raise your voices with me, brothers and sisters: "No to tablets without psychotropic effect!" The future of reading. Think Star Trek. But clunkier. And on a rental basis, most likely. Sigh. Home 25 Bookninja 11-28-2005 12:25 PM ET (US) e-Books are so square... BoingBoing points to a tutorial on how to turn your ebook in a wall-sized readable cube. Geekalicious. Speaking of which... Home 24 Bookninja 08-04-2005 07:05 AM ET (US) Ringy dingy HarperCollins Oz is going to be sending book info to cell users. This is the kind of thing Lady Ninja uses to damn me for getting us cell phones. We resisted for years and years, but a kid in the big city was too difficult. (I don't know, dear, How did everyone survive before...?) Who wants to be reachable everywhere by FRIENDS much less Rupert Murdoch? (From The Saloon) Home 23 Bookninja 06-26-2005 09:17 PM ET (US) Going digital, despite the two-finger typing Many publishers, notorious holdouts in the tech world, are releasing books and excerpts digitally. Free internet books don't seem to hurt sales. In fact, they seem to help them. And the nerds can get involved too. Digital text also allows fans of fiction to engage with the story in a way most readers can’t. Baen Books doesn’t encrypt its electronic text “in any sense whatsoever,” according to Jim Baen. Visitors to the site can read books on their browsers, they can download e-books, or they can download it to their desktop in Microsoft Word. “It’s great,” says Baen. “They can go in and mess with it. They can do what they want.” Doctorow is similarly enthusiastic about the modifications his fans make to his work, and asks them to notify him of their projects. (One of Doctorow’s readers in Georgia recently emailed him to tell him he’d converted a book into a format that allows him to transmit the story to his own eyeglasses. “He uses it to scroll text across his vision as he walks down the road,” says Doctorow.) Awww. Nerds. Don't you just love em? Home 22 Bookninja 06-02-2005 07:20 AM ET (US) The ransom model of publishing... Clive points to an example of a couple of dudes reinventing a way to sell e-books over the internet. Interesting concept, especially for e-publishing. I wonder if it will ever fall prey to bystander syndrome -- wherein every person hoping to get the book thinks someone else will make the donations needed and nobody makes a move. If I held my book ransom, I'd have to eventually cut it's pinky off and send it to myself in the mail. Home 21 jm 05-20-2005 08:28 AM ET (US) Gutenberg-schmutenberg project plain text--this is suhweet. 20 Bookninja 05-20-2005 07:03 AM ET (US) Free e-book Friday! Okay, before you snort and wrinkle your nose, I have two words for you: searchable text. Eh? Not so snooty now, are yeh? (From BoingBoing) Home 19 Bookninja 04-26-2005 09:31 AM ET (US) E-pistolary I'm pretty sure I coined that term a few years back. I also invented the comma, light on sunflowers, and the word "wholphin". Both e-pistolary and epistolary novels reflect a shift in the culture -- new technology for e-mail books, an increase in literacy, and by extension letter writing, during the 18th century. And interestingly, two of the greatest epistolary novels, Pamela (1740), the very first example, and Clarissa (1748) both written by Samuel Richardson, concern the romantic and sexual lives of a young heroine -- much like modern e-pistolary books. Susan Swan's Stupid Boys Are Good to Relax With did this years ago. Years! Home	Upgrade to PRO Upload pictures, personalize your board, and more! About these ads
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