Who among us has not yet read an ebook? Yet, they have only been around for about forty years, ever since Michael Hart decided that digitizing all the available (out of copyright) books in the world should be done, and to make them freely available. Who is Michael Hart, you say? You may not have [...]

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If you are a returning visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I am doing a bit of rearranging in the sidebar, inserting a few ads, removing some obsolete widgets, etc. In the process of evaluating things to delete, I clicked on the Alltop link, and proceeded to get lost in reading some [...]

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It’s here! I’m writing this post on the device, in fact. When the FedEx driver finally arrived, about 3:45p.m., she said “Everyone has been home today to receive these.” Well, duh! Naturally, it is going to take some time before I can explore all the features of all the apps as well as the gadget [...]

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Well, I did it. I stayed up all night reading techie news and following the iPad chatter on Twitter, then promptly at 7:30 a.m. local time (we’re in Central Time zone at the moment), I pulled up the Apple Store website and placed my order for a 32GB iPad + 3G. So now the wait [...]

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After watching the live feeds of today’s Apple iPad announcement, audio/video from Leo Leporte’s Twit, and live blogging by Gizmodo and Engadget (both of which crashed their servers from time to time), I have to have one! As expected, Apple blew away the competition. My KindleDX is now obsolete (not that I was ever really [...]

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I was just listening to the latest episode of This Week in Google (TWiG), a new Leo Laporte podcast, when I was struck by the discussion of how microblogging, as on Twitter or Facebook, can sometimes steal posts away from “normal” blogs. I’m not the only one out there who finds myself tweeting instead of [...]

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So, I’ve had my Kindle DX eReader for about 10 days now, and it’s time to write about the experience. Overall my reaction is positive, but there are a few weak points that diminish my euphoria with the device. First, there is the screen itself. It is not paper-white at all. The contrast is rather [...]

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The timing couldn’t have been better. My first semester in grad school ended Friday, July 31st, and Monday, August 3rd, the Kindle arrived. I’ve done little else besides fiddle around with it since then. In fact, half a day went by before I realized Twitter had gone down! I’ll have more to say about it [...]

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Well, probably not, but as soon as I posted my query about whether or not to cancel my order for a Kindle DX, I got an email announcing that my order would be shipping sooner than expected. It’s actually been shipped now, expected to arrive Monday, so it’s too late to cancel it. Thanks to [...]

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It now appears to be if not official, then at least pretty credible. Apple will have a tablet within months, possibly before Christmas, and it will have color, and apps, and shiny, oh my! Now I have a problem. I ordered a Kindle DX a couple of weeks ago. Naturally, I’d rather have this new [...]

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