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What Is A Book?

02.23.2012 Books and Literature

A lot of people are arguing about books. What are they? Is there some ultimate battle over the idea of bookness? Is it the physical thing, the printed, bound object, or is it a thing that can live on a device? I love paper, printed, bound books. I love them deeply. But I also don’t [...]

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Writing The Book Is Only The First Step

12.02.2010 Books and Literature

When I first considered turning Writing Assignments into a book, I thought about just harvesting what I’d published here, dropping it into a word processing document, and saving it as a PDF. Easy peasey. But a couple of things became clear. It looked horrible. I could never distribute it that way. Friends encouraged me to [...]

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Buy My New Book, Please! Writing Assignments eBook and Paperback Now Available

11.30.2010 Books and Literature

This is a big day for me!  I’m very excited to release my new book, Writing Assignments, based on the series I started here at First Today, Then Tomorrow. I’ll try not to overhype this book, but I am very proud of it. It contains many of the assignments I’ve published here and several new [...]

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Three Reasons Why You Probably Shouldn’t Buy A Kindle (Or Other Dedicated e-Reader)

03.25.2010 Books and Literature

Yesterday I laid out Three Temporary Advantages of Dedicated e-Readers. Today let’s talk about the Kindle’s disadvantages and why it might be a better idea to purchase the iPad. Amazon is not a computer hardware company. Amazon wants to sell books and other goods. They see the Kindle as a means to an end. The [...]

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Three Temporary Advantages of Dedicated e-Readers Like The Kindle

03.24.2010 Books and Literature

The iPad approacheth. Is it complete doom for dedicated e-readers like the Amazon Kindle? Yes, but not quite yet. There are MANY advantages of a flexible solution like the iPad, but the Kindle retains three distinct advantages. These may not be enough, and they certainly won’t remain distinctive for long, but they are still very [...]

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