Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Monday, November 1st, 2010
In late August, I had bought Timothy Pychyl's e-book The Procrastinator's Digest via Xlibris for use with Adobe Digital Editions. (I subscribe to Pychyl's iProcrastinate podcast.) However, trying to get Adobe Digital Editions set up and registered on my MacBook was a pain, and then my credit card number was ...
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
I can't remember how I ran across Markson's novel This Is Not A Novel, but I found it so fascinating an experiment that I scooped up and read his other novels that followed the same disconnected yet mosaic-like form.
Colin Marshall has written an appreciation of Markson, who recently died, that ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Economic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines.
Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats.
The best suit for your body type.
Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Narrative and novels as models for social relations and as simulations of economic approaches.
First in a series of BBC4 radio programs on what the novelist's imagination can offer sociological research on place. Settings: the rural idyll, the city, and the suburb.
"Once you've restricted yourself to information that turns up in ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
First heard of the "Is Google Making Us Stupid/Killing Literature" foomfahrah via this Mark Hurst post and this follow-up. Kevin Kelly was quite a player in the debate also, here and here, and all the above links will let you read all sides to your heart's desire. Clay Shirky's post ...
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