BoingBoing brings our attention to one of the hidden features of Goodreads. Lots of people like to use GR's "shelves" feature to track the books they...Continue reading
Back before we used computers to lay out the text of a book, magazine, or newspaper, publishers used various methods to manually lay out text before...Continue reading
Millennial-bashing is popular among the media, and this is a problem not just because it's lazy writing but also because sometimes it distracts from what is...Continue reading
Following several years of quiet debate, a division of the American Library Association has announced that it will be changing the name of its children book...Continue reading
Terry Pratchett may have avoided ghouls robbing his literary estate after his death, but other authors were nearly as lucky. Some authors (for example, Harper Lee) were...Continue reading
In its ongoing efforts to beat the "print books good, ebooks bad" drum, on Sunday the Guardian asked Philip Jones of The Bookseller why he thought...Continue reading
Back before Christmas the Harvard Business Review published an article on recent research that showed that people valued physical objects for the act of possession more...Continue reading
There is a hard and fast rule that science fiction has science and that fantasy has magic, and thus the two genres will never be one....Continue reading
Editor's Note: The following poem was written by Clive James. I haven't been able to reach the author and secure permission for posting it here, so...Continue reading
Do you know how some look down on science fiction and other genre fiction as being less serious or literary? It turns out that they might...Continue reading
Every so often I have posted an open question asking what people are reading on, but I don't think I have ever asked about the content you...Continue reading
Someone has once again missed the point of Ray Bradbury's seminal work. Open Culture reports that a Dutch art college has created a new edition of Fahrenheit...Continue reading
We all know how to use the rice trick to recover a waterlogged gadget (hint: oatmeal works better), but have you ever had to revive a...Continue reading
This Thursday morning finds me sitting here, waiting for my Kindle to install the latest firmware update. I'm looking forward to the new options for sizes...Continue reading
The first thing thing you should know about reading books in a web browser is that far more developers than users are excited about the idea of...Continue reading