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Oh Yeah…Audiobooks
In 2002, I joined Audible and began binging on Audiobooks. We had recently moved to a new house which tripled my commute to 30 minutes, so I retasked the 15″ woofers in my 16 year old little truck to the … Continue reading
Posted in ponderings Tagged audible, audiobooks, books, reading
Kindle Fire: The Curated Content Device
I had one primary goal when I ordered a Kindle Fire: it would free up the iPad to leave home during the day for my wife and kids to use. (Okay, okay, stop looking at me like that. I also … Continue reading
Six Days With the Kindle Fire
Since the first Kindle was released, Amazon has offered a device that’s the perfect storm for this tech-loving book lover. Or is it book-loving tech lover? Either way, I’m a lover, and tech gadgets and books sit high on my … Continue reading
Hey Publishers
Hey publishers, I would like to think of us as friends. I read lots of books, and most of them I purchase so I can mark them up and revisit them. Several of you have been kind enough to send … Continue reading
Posted in ponderings Tagged books, ebooks, ipad, kindle, publishing, reading
hands on with kindle for mac
Four months after releasing Kindle for PC, Amazon dropped a Kindle Reader for Mac this week. I installed it last night and played with it for about five minutes. That’s all it took to learn what it could do. When … Continue reading
for the love of instapaper
Every once in a while, I have one of those What apps do you have on your iPhone? conversations. It’s kind of the 2009 version of How much can you bench? I thought Instapaper was mainstream, but it’s not seldom … Continue reading
Posted in tools Tagged capture everything, instapaper, iphone, kindle, reading
hands on with the kindle 2
Yesterday, brown trucks across the country began delivering the streamlined Kindle 2 to delighted readers and gadget freaks. I got my hands on one late yesterday and have had some time to play with it. As an owner of the … Continue reading
Posted in tools Tagged amazon kindle, kindle 2, reading, review
artist's way reflections: week 4
For most blocked creatives, reading is an addiction. We gobble the words of others rather than digest our own thoughts and feelings, rather than cook up something of our own. (pg. 87) I hate this quote. I agree with it, … Continue reading
Posted in ponderings Tagged books, reading, the artist's way
reading journal
I’m an avid reader. I set a goal each year to read an average of a book a week. I enjoy reading, but it is also a discipline of creative work. Ideas rarely initiate out of nowhere. Some of my … Continue reading
some love for my kindle
While traveling the past few weeks, I read The Starfish and the Spider for a research project I have due later this month. I read it on my Amazon Kindle. The Kindle experience is turning out to be all I … Continue reading
Posted in tools Tagged amazon kindle, creativity, reading, research, scrivener, the starish and the spider, yojimbo
I am a husband, dad, lover of words,