Month: July 2009
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I’d read about this movie in the New York Times last week. The movie’s out now and I’m hopeful you’ll be as appalled about this story as I am. I urge everyone to read about this issue and take the…
The Green Apple Bookstore in San Francisco has begun a very funny, yet somehow strangely on-the-mark video blog featuring a “title” match between The Book and The Kindle. The first two installments may be found here. (Thank heavens, I don’t have a…
Very nice post by writer Steve York on who exactly owns what when it comes to books. While I’m not in 100% agreement with how much better off students might be with paper-less textbooks (I don’t they will be, at…
A great article by Nicholson Baker for The New Yorker and not just his observations on using the Kindle, either. Pay attention to what happened when he went up to Maine. He walked into a REAL bookstore with a knowledgeable…
We first saw Brook Slane’s work at the Tory Folliard Gallery a few months back and were so taken that we commissioned a painting. Where Do I Go? is the result. As my daughter remarked, the painting looks like a…
Ban the Gas Chamber for Animals From Care2Action Alerts: Michigan House Bill 4263, the Humane Euthanasia of Shelter Animals Act, would ensure that when the state’s unwanted, sick or unadoptable shelter animals have to be euthanized, the procedure will only…
Actually, more about ereaders: A very nice point-by-point rebuttal of why the B&N announcement ain’t much on Booksquare. Like I said, I’ve written ebooks, and I’m certainly not slamming them. I think I’m more disgusted by the marketplace. For the…
Just going to show that no time is wasted . . . I’m driving, fretting that I’m not writing instead, and then I hear a story on NPR. The story is a follow-up to an article I read the week before–that…
