Due to my weak and undisciplined nature I have succumbed to "more shinies syndrome" and now I have a Kobo Touch. I have a large collection of O'Reilly books in ePub format, which work just fine on the iPad, but crash the Kobo. So I set out to massage my O'Reilly books to the point that they are usable on the Kobo.

( Details of my book massaging behind the cut )

Before you get to my post, here is some background reading. They're short, so please go read them now:

• If a stranger grabs your camera and snaps a photo, who owns the copyright?
• Photos must be the product of human authorship to be copyrightable
• Shutter-happy monkey turns photographer

( This rant is about copyright and who owns it. )

A couple of people at the office have told me about "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss. I did a quick search on Bing and found a revew from Gabe, of Penny Arcade:
Tycho told me to read a book the other day and I told him to tear out all of the pages and shove each one individually up his butt-hole. He didn't do that. Instead he opened [The ( Read more... )