A Reason to Buy Books: Living Books
I am a big fan of the unbook concept, popularized by Dave Gray among others. I am currently in the process of trying to turn my Inner Chapters audio essays into a book and not surprisingly am using the...
View ArticleB&N’s Nook Rooted
I saw this story about the first critical step in exercising owner override on Barnes and Nobles new ebook reader thanks to Hacker News. According to ITworld, this does require cracking the case to get...
View ArticlePublishers Fighting the Future
Yet another story, this time via NYT Bits, of the publishing industry copying the mistakes made by other content industries. In this case, trying to game the release of titles in different formats due...
View ArticleRooted Nook Can Run Pandora
I guess my skepticism was not justified. It looks like clever hackers are already running at least one killer app. The steps appear pretty straightforward to getting the Android version of Pandora...
View ArticleEFF’s E-Book Buying Guide to Privacy
EFF has an excellent chart considering the best and worst of e-book readers based on privacy concerns. There is a lot more to consider when looking at devices and software but this is a good start....
View ArticleKindle DRM Cracked
The Register has details of a challenge issued and accepted amongst a bunch of hackers which has resulted in the DRM scheme for Amazon’s protected Kindle e-book files being cracked. Even though Amazon...
View ArticleDo We Need Another E-Book Platform?
I will concede that before his current obsession with The Singularity, Ray Kurzweil actually worked on a set of technologies that would seem to give him a leg up on developing yet another e-book...
View ArticleYet Another E-Book Reader, Platform
ReadWriteWeb has the ho-hum details. Really, the only way in which this is remarkable is it may be a positive sign of competition in the space. If that is the case, if new entrants feel they can...
View ArticleUpdate to EFF’s E-Book Reader Privacy Guide
EFF shares a nice update to their already well researched guide to privacy issues with some of the more popular e-book readers/platforms. At a glance, it is much clearer where each stands on a relevant...
View ArticleEFF’s Trends for 2010
EFF has a well considered, forward looking post listing a dozen trends that should be interesting to watch in 2010. As far as predictions go, I think these are pretty safe as most if not all of them...
View ArticleAmazon Makes DRM-Free E-Books Easier
Several sources, including ReadWriteWeb, pushed out the news that Amazon was allowing some publishers and authors to opt out of DRM on the Kindle. Most are also sharing an update where the retail giant...
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TCLP 2010-01-31 News
This is news cast 205, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, information about a couple of great upcoming events: Free Culture X and the Southern California Linux Expo. This week’s...
View ArticleThree Fantasy Authors Launch E-Book Store
The FSF Defective by Design folks posted a link to this on Identi.ca. The site is Closed Circle and features titles from C.J. Cherryh, Jane Fancher, and Lynn Abbey. The titles available from this site...
View ArticleE-Books to be Offered by British Library
Michael Geist shared the link to this story. The works in question are out of print and out of copyright. The e-books are the result of a three year project where the library has been working with...
View ArticleEFF Checklist for Readers Considering Digital Books
This looks like a complementary piece to the EFF’s guide to privacy and e-book readers. Unlike that other guide, this list doesn’t supply answers but rather poses questions consumers should consider...
View ArticleSuper Fast Book Scanner
Mark at Boing Boing links to an IEEE Spectrum piece about the research by Masatoshi Ishikawa and his colleagues. More specifically it is about the applications they are developing for an incredible...
View ArticleFollowing Up for the Week Ending 3/21/2010
China warns Google partners as censored results leak through Appeal date set for TPB Judge approves massive award against FB in Beacon suit EU wants ACTA to include tertiary liability for aiding,...
View ArticleEye Tracking as a Component of the Future of Reading
At Wired, Eliot Van Buskirk describes research demonstrated a few months back where eye tracking technology is used to bring some intriguing possiblities to the experience of reading. I think this is...
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TCLP 2010-04-11 News
This is news cast 211, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, thanks to new donor this week, David. This week’s security alerts are a new site collecting privacy and security info on...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Oversharing Risks on Facebook, Safe Harbor Victory, and...
Consumer Reports warns of risks of oversharing on Facebook As Sarah Perez explains at RWW, the source, a mainstream media outlet, is the most remarkable part of this story. Consumer Reports’ findings...
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