Daily Archives: September 5, 2010
Public Domain Parasites #2
Google Book Forum: Is Kessinger Publishing for real? I had a number of 1800s needlework books in my library. Suddenly some of them are not Full View any more. They are listed as “Legacy Reprint Series” by Kessinger Publishing. When … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, eBooks: General, Google, Pottersville
Charbax Sells New Sony Reader Better Than Sony!
He does! First, he get realclose to the screen, showing how damned good it is. Second, he shows that even the lightest possible touch on the screen will activate pageturn. Third, he shows that a light press of a fingertip’s … Continue reading
Filed under Sony Reader, Video
Venezuela introduces Cuba-like food card – Venezuela – MiamiHerald.com
Presented by President Hugo Chávez as an instrument to make shopping for groceries easier, the “Good Life Card” is making various segments of the population wary because they see it as a furtive attempt to introduce a rationing card similar … Continue reading
Filed under Pottersville, Quoted, Reference
Book fan reveals collection of 15,000 Penguin paperbacks | Metro.co.uk
When the publisher made the first sixpence paperbacks available – 75 years ago this year – most hardbacks cost about a week’s wages for the average worker. via Book fan reveals collection of 15,000 Penguin paperbacks | Metro.co.uk Right now, … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, eBooks: General, Pricing, Quoted, Reference
The Screens Of 2014 Envisioned
Have a look first, my two cents after the break:
Filed under Other Hardware, Video
New Statesman – Girls, tattoos and men who hate women
Lisbeth Salander is an immensely powerful character, a misandrist vigilante with a penchant for black fetish wear and ersatz technology, like the terrifying offspring of Batman and Valerie Solanos. She is so well drawn that one can almost forgive Larsson … Continue reading
Filed under Books: General, Quoted
The Daily Rubicon Twitter Broadsheet
GeorgeAM1970 on Twitter has set up one of those aggregator pages that are now the rage at Paper.li. This one is for AMC-TV‘s series Rubicon! See it here. I kick myself for not thinking of it!
Filed under Rubicon
