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My Not-so-ordinary WorldStill on the Learning CurveJuly 27, 2012
It’s not the first time I bit off more than I could chew or got enthusiastic about a revolutionary idea that didn’t work. It turns out that neither Kindle nor Nook is designed to be a web browser. Duh. I should have known that, but since a lot of my e-book reading (more…)
Coming Soon to an E-Reader Near You!July 13, 2012  I have been putting off the venture, fearing (more…) They Almost Always Come HomeSeptember 23, 2011  The Future of the Book; or What I Want for ChristmasOctober 25, 2010
As a librarian, I started hearing early about the death of the book. Why build library buildings when books will soon be obsolete and all our information digitized? In the early days, I think the proponents of this view imagined a shoebox of disks that would contain the knowledge of the ages. It didn’t seem to occur to them that someone would need to (more…)
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