O’Reilly has posted video from my session with Keith Fahlgren on e-reading devices.
Please enjoy my despair at the beginning as all the wireless-enabled readers interfere with the microphone.
It might be useful to follow along with the slides in the latter half of my talk, when the camera doesn’t show them.
I had a lot of fun putting this presentation together, and not just because it was an excuse to play with toys. It was also nice to see the PlasticLogic device up close, even though I suspect the final marketable product may be quite different from these early prototypes.
Keith and I beat pretty hard [...]
I had meant to include this as a slide in my e-reader talk but didn’t have time.
I think we can all agree that this is a don’t.
(There’s a free sample though!)
Many ebooks aren’t going through the same kind of quality control that regular books do. That’s been my experience and that of other ebook consumers. I’m not talking about technical problems here as much as basic editorial ones.
Sometimes the issues are minor: occasional spacing errors, missing or overzealous capitalization. Other times they can be more [...]
As part of an on-going series on exploring the hidden corners of the Kindle, a post on using an undocumented image browsing feature to read complex PDFs or image-based documents: How to Read any Type of File on the Kindle (Almost).
Of course, going from text to scanned images is exactly backwards from the way things [...]
It’s 2am, and I’ve just finished a great novel. My significant other went to sleep hours ago. My best friend, who lives across the country, would love this book, so I make a mental note to tell him about it. If we talk in a day or so I might remember, and it’s possible he’ll [...]