Ebook help
This article (thanks, Petzi) noted that ebooks are now outselling hardbacks on Amazon. Therefore, I hope someone reading this might have some tips for me on why Calibre does not seem to be recognizing my new iTouch (loading Stanza on it as well as podfics has also been a trial). What's probably making this difficult is that I am trying to do all this without loading iTunes.
Speaking of books, some local storms have been keeping me offline so I did some print book reading lately. I did a double take when I noticed in the preface to Sue Grafton's K is for Killer that she mentioned her dogs Sadie and Halley.
I had also forgotten how much it annoyed me when mystery writers seem to think that the resolution of the mystery should mean the immediate end of the book. This was a frequent complaint of mine with Dick Francis, most of whose books I've read. I don't remember generally feeling that way with Agatha Christie's books, but I have run into it several times now with Sue Grafton's. In this latest one the mystery seems barely resolved, what she told her client isn't mentioned at all, and the final page of epilogue seems to raise more questions than it answers. I liked the story on the whole but I don't know what it is about mystery writers that they seem to think we couldn't sit through another five pages of answering all our questions before moving on.
Some have probably already heard about this Blogetery issue but it is rather alarming to consider how an entire site can be shut down because of presumably only a handful of blogs. What's worse is all the secrecy around the issue, leaving everyone in the dark about what's going to happen to their work and communities.
At the other end of things, this NY Times article focused on the people doing the censoring for different websites (they're largely minimum wage contract workers located around the world). It doesn't sound like a pleasant job but what caught my attention was the speed at which these images need to be processed (no word on who looks at text or how it's reviewed). There was also no information on what percentage of flagged items are actually banned.
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Speaking of books, some local storms have been keeping me offline so I did some print book reading lately. I did a double take when I noticed in the preface to Sue Grafton's K is for Killer that she mentioned her dogs Sadie and Halley.
I had also forgotten how much it annoyed me when mystery writers seem to think that the resolution of the mystery should mean the immediate end of the book. This was a frequent complaint of mine with Dick Francis, most of whose books I've read. I don't remember generally feeling that way with Agatha Christie's books, but I have run into it several times now with Sue Grafton's. In this latest one the mystery seems barely resolved, what she told her client isn't mentioned at all, and the final page of epilogue seems to raise more questions than it answers. I liked the story on the whole but I don't know what it is about mystery writers that they seem to think we couldn't sit through another five pages of answering all our questions before moving on.
Some have probably already heard about this Blogetery issue but it is rather alarming to consider how an entire site can be shut down because of presumably only a handful of blogs. What's worse is all the secrecy around the issue, leaving everyone in the dark about what's going to happen to their work and communities.
At the other end of things, this NY Times article focused on the people doing the censoring for different websites (they're largely minimum wage contract workers located around the world). It doesn't sound like a pleasant job but what caught my attention was the speed at which these images need to be processed (no word on who looks at text or how it's reviewed). There was also no information on what percentage of flagged items are actually banned.
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