What sets the used bookstore apart is it’s respect for browsing. Proprietors and curators of abandoned and previously loved books understand that used books are like cookies – you can’t have just one. Staff have never asked me if I was looking for the best sellers, or recommended the latest self help book. No, the curators . . . → Read More: In Defense of the Used Book Store
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I recently had a chance to get my hands on the Kobo eReader reader. It was definitely a basic device, residing at the lower end of the price range, it seems poised to tempt the traditional reader to enter the digital book domain. Judging by the number of fingerprints on the screen, I wasn’t the first . . . → Read More: eBook or eLibrary? My hands are hot. Really hot like accidentally touching an iron, or an element on the stove. The sting as the flesh of my cheek is grated away makes my eyes water, and the vibrations of the asphalt against my cheekbone is conducted through every bone in my skull. It cracks like thunder in my ears. The . . . → Read More: The Space In Between #fridayflash Is a picture worth 1000 words? How about 3 of them masquerading as a comic strip? In lieu of the traditional Friday Flash, I present a li’l something from my alter . . . → Read More: My Alter Ego Presents: The Dream romeromeo Hey @the_juliet – Swell party last night. If we don’t hook up soon, I’ll kill myself. More wars, or fewer? The same number, but less violent? Niven preferred to consider the music of the stars in the form of questions like these. What would it be like if everyone could hear it? Tonight’s symphony of rumbles and whistles seemed appropriate to battle. When I started 3S stories on Nov 17,2008, my goal was to tweet a short-short-short story five days a week for a year. With the exception of a couple weeks holidays, I pulled it off. I learned a lot about editing, about impact, and more importantly, about the social value of Twitter. I wanted to keep 3S_stories . . . → Read More: Hash it out – My next great Twitter adventure No obligatory year in review post this year. Nope. Not gonna do it. Prom King and Queen of My Twitter Stream One . . . → Read More: Things I Forgot in 2009 On a cold, lazy Sunday afternoon, I decided to publish an eBook using Smashwords. In the days following, my Google reader was spewing forth post after post after post on the subject of ebooks, e-readers, the perils of self publishing, the possibilities of self publishing, the perils of traditional publishing, and the significance of the pickle . . . → Read More: The eBook Adventure What I love most about the internet is that it makes it easy to do things that you didn’t even know you wanted to do. For example, I just published an ebook. Oh, did I mention I also made a promo film for it? Enjoy the short film, then head over to my publications page to find out . . . → Read More: Something’s Not Right #ebook #free |
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