Tag Archives: books

Amazon book reviews and the average reader

I do find it amazing how many book reviews on Amazon claim that the book isn’t for the average reader. To quote from my recent comment on this: I do wonder who this “average” reader is that anyone posting on these feedbacks seems to consider themselves to be above. My guess, and it is no

The end of the long commute and audio book experience

I recently came the end of a long term assignment that had me travelling to Swansea every week and living in a flat three, four and sometime five nights a week. The drive at the beginning and end of the week was somewhat draining as it took at least three hours, more usually four allowing

@CynthiaY29 I find iPhone grea…

@CynthiaY29 I find iPhone great for novels, but not viable for text books; read hundreds on iPhone/ipaq; prefer stanza app to kindle

@CynthiaY29 whilst I use lapto…

@CynthiaY29 whilst I use laptop for many hours each day, not sure I could read books on them, prefer smaller devices

@CynthiaY29 do you think maybe…

@CynthiaY29 do you think maybe text books are less daunting in ebook format when you can’t feel the weight?

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08

Peer-to-Peer Viral Backup: Cucku 2.0 Definitely Scores Points for Imagination http://shar.es/0a6Es # Photographer located in Mocksville, North Carolina http://ff.im/-oIHXM # Reading: http://twitthis.com/otpk9v # Untitled http://post.ly/ptfq # Books drying in the lounge. http://post.ly/ptfq # Main lounge looks like one of those fancy literary coffee-bookshop places. Fanned (recently dried books) are perched on all useful surfaces. #

Main lounge looks like one of …

Main lounge looks like one of those fancy literary coffee-bookshop places. Fanned (recently dried books) are perched on all useful surfaces.

Wet books are being hair-dryer…

Wet books are being hair-dryer dried in kitchen by my wife and a friend. Kids got too much water onto work-top while we were away.

Resisting the iPhone 4

For the last 17 months I have been the relatively happy use of an iPhone 3G on O2. I have made extension use of the device and it has become an integral part of my life. In principle, I would prefer to use an Android phone as I am more inclined to the open standards

I use recaptcha on my site to …

I use recaptcha on my site to help digitise books http://bit.ly/c0XxSr