Tag Archives: ebook readers

Asus re-redux

I haven't read any more on the Asus since my last post about it. However, it recently paid for itself when I had a computer emergency. For three days that little thing was an absolute workhorse. It was a little slow and klunky, but it did the job and Read more [...]

More on the Asus

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I haven't used my eBookWise in a while. I've been reading *gasp* paper and on my Asus EeePC in my recliner. So last night I went back to my eBookWise. It's cold here (well, for early October, it is). It was toasty warm in my bed. I ducked under the covers Read more [...]

The handy-dandy all-purpose digital reader

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Some time back ago, I said I wanted an Asus EeePC to read digital books because it was kind of an all-purpose device. As time went on, I decided maybe I'd rather have an iPhone or a BlackBerry, but then I found out about their mandatory data plans and Read more [...]

The Bewbies(TM) appear in the Apple store.

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Finally! After six months, unceasing wailing, and a solid refusal to censor myself, The Proviso was finally approved for sale as an application in the Apple iTunes store. Go get it! (Now I don't feel hypocritical by naming iPhone names in Stay, because, Read more [...]

PSA for LDS publishers

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Y'all probably don't read my blog. I curse muchly and there is "sex" in my banner, not to mention a bare nekkid lady. Before you read any further (if you are still reading or the least bit interested), please go to these websites and study them. Ignore Read more [...]

Eating a little bit of crow…

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Yesterday, I got a little mouthy (see this post), which will surprise no one. I was sent an EPUB file that had embedded fonts that rendered perfectly in ADE. I cracked the file open and what did I see? Perfection. The file wasn't bloated, it was neatly Read more [...]

Yo, EPUB evangelists!

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June 26, 2009 For those of you EPUB designer/evangelists who talk about the way EPUB allows you to embed fonts, listen up: It doesn't make a damn bit of difference. The only thing that makes a difference is what the EPUB reader has available to it, Read more [...]

The book is dead. Long live the book.

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Had a very instructive morning, dear boys and girls. The power in my neighborhood went out for a while. The devil! you say. No, truly, it did. No lights, no TV (poor Dude and Dude's daily recordings), no stove (electric, ptooey), no dishwasher, no Read more [...]

The forbidden Apple

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So let's try this again and I will make myself very clear: I'm seriously pissed. Apple rejected my book from its iApp store on the basis that it has the F-word. Now, I'm sorry, but the fact that the F-word is in my book is the least of its crimes (they Read more [...]

A rose by any other name

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There's been a lot of discussion lately about the definition of a "book," or more specifically, the proper formatting of an e-book, and the definition of a "page" and its importance in the New eWorld Order. I'm here to tell you: Unless it's on paper Read more [...]

Jukeboxes and libraries

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I have a bunch of beautiful books. They're mostly in hardback because I don't see paperbacks as objets d'art the way I do my hardback books. Oh, don't get me wrong, I read hardbacks, certainly. If I have it, I read it. But there's just something substantial Read more [...]

The perfect bookstore

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Hey, publishers and booksellers. Let me help you solve all your problems, ’kay? Behold the perfect bookstore: The problems? You know exactly what they are and obviously you aren't interested in solving them. You booksellers have been rolling Read more [...]

My way or the highway

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Lately I've been reading a snowballing number of posts in the ebook community about adopting EPUB as the international (and pleasepleaseplease DRM-free) standard. This is great and I'm SOOO on board with that. What's got me disturbed is that the subtext Read more [...]

For future reference

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Over on Teleread, there's a new blog post today about ebooks being fertile for annotation. I envision this somewhat like a post littered with Wikipedia links to explain things so that the reading audience who doesn't know what he's talking about can Read more [...]

Target: Sony

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So, update on the Sony ereader: Not impressed. Besides no backlight (my all-time favorite feature), the text was grainy (grainier than my eBookWise's dot-matrix-on-best-setting text). That is all. Er...no, it's not. I still want Sony to kick Kindle's Read more [...]