LAST WEEK of this month’s Kindle-watch showed the highest total of Kindle’s yet. Of course, the iPad dominated ebook discussions for the week, even though ebooks are just a small piece of its offering. The last Kindle I saw was being used side by side with an iPhone.
I will have to […]
DESPITE spending less time on commuter and subway trains, the numbers don’t look that much off.
On the flight back from Seattle today it was dueling ebook readers, as one guy had a Sony Reader and one had a Kindle. The stewardess even mention that we needed to check the seatback pockets and not forget […]
THE KINDLES continued to come out of hiding this week. I witnessed another two people reading on their Kindles this week. One person was reading Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers, which supports my view that the vast majority of the reading being done with ebook readers consists of free and public domain boooks. […]
I EXPECTED there to be a larger number of Kindle’s on the Fitchburg line and the Red line after the Christmas and New Year Holidays. The first week back on the train started slowly. At first I saw a Sony Reader. Not sure if it was a new Daily Edition or not. At the end […]
The Boston Book Festival Twitter linked to this interesting little mashup of “The Big Lebowski” and William Shakespeare entitled Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. It definitely brings a smile to face after a long first week back at the day job after the holidays. Makes me want to rush out and buy some milk […]
MY FACE froze up during this day out snowshoeing last Tuesday. I also “found” some spots where the rains from a couple days before had created some hidden pockets of water. It immediately froze to my snowshoes making them kind of deep frozen snowshoes, boots and pants.
Here is a list of the the wines that Patty and I drank over the end of year holiday time. I am still very fond of the Ken Wright wines. They definitely get better after four years or more in the bottle. A lot of Northwest wines, but I guess that just […]
