Posts Tagged ‘Reading’

Sony Reader Distribution, The Amazon Kindle, and the rebirth of Digital Publishing

Gadgets, Opine, Social, Techie | Posted by LD October 28th, 2008

Was tweaking around some of the old links and found a fellow I linked to a while back in a post about the Sony Reader and iRex Iliad. Seems he’s started a few new blogs and posted recently about Sony Reader distribution. He’s posted a lot of articles relating to eBook distribution both in relation to devices and the actual content as well. Frankly as I look at the front page for Amazon.com and look at the ever present Kindle ad on the front page I have to wonder if eBooks will finally have a chance of reaching a larger market. I first started being interested in them when I had access to Microsoft Reader and purchased several books from Amazon.com in that format. They were decent enough, and I had an iPaq at the time so reading off it wasn’t a big deal for me. I enjoyed it. I even had fanfictions on it and read them using pocket word. I so enjoyed my first Jornada PDA.

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Favorite Fanfiction by people OTHER THEN Me

Opine | Posted by LD October 28th, 2008

I figured I would take some time and share some links to other peoples fanfictions that other people have written that I loved. The first of these are obviously Axel “Terizaki’s Child of Love” and Rakna’s “The One I Love Is”. These were two of the first fanfics I ever read and did enjoy them. They also sort of forged the way for the types of fics I found myself enjoying most.

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Harry Potter Book 7 Release Date Announced

Opine | Posted by LD February 1st, 2007

For the folk who care. J.K. Rowling has announced that the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released July 21, 2007. Get your idea hats on.

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