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The Fire This Time

Monday, November 21st, 2011

My place of work recently ordered some new e-readers and tablets for staff to use. I had the opportunity to take a Kindle Fire home for the weekend to play around with it and see how it works. After a couple of days using it, here are my impressions. As an e-reader, it’s pretty sweet. [...]

The e-Book User’s Bill of Rights

Monday, February 28th, 2011

After last week’s announcement that publisher HarperCollins is putting a cap on the number of times their e-books can be checked out from OverDrive, I’ve been even angrier than I usually am about the way publishers and distributors screw consumers and users of the rights they have with non-digital content. One of the main reasons [...]

Kindling

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

My mother bought herself a new Kindle for Christmas and passed her Kindle 2 along to me. I have some pretty major problems with e-books, but I’m generally not one to turn down a gift, so here I am with a Kindle. I read my first book on the Kindle recently. I have to admit, [...]

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