ebooks
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The Onion Profiles A New Kindle That Brags About Your Taste In Books
Bookworms who’ve baulked at upgrading to an ereader have a long list of reasons why they won’t give up their paper copies. But there’s only one real reason why anyone would carry around a book anymore: It lets them show off what they’re reading in public. And as The Onion reveals, that’s what led Amazon…
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Five Past Predictions For The Future Of The Ebook
The dream of the electronic library dates back to at least the 1950s — and arguably much earlier! But it wasn’t until the 1980s and ’90s that our ebook dreams slowly became a high-tech reality.
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You Can Now Get Calvin And Hobbes As Ebooks
Words cannot express how giddily excited we are by this news: you can finally get Calvin and Hobbes ebooks for the first time. Goodbye, weekend.
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Nerd Out On This Sprawling Oral History Of Apple Design
If you, like me, pored over the Steve Jobs biography (or perhaps over Jobs) looking for juicy tidbits about Apple’s design culture, you likely were sorely disappointed. We know plenty about Jobs’ mercurial management and even about his own aesthetic sensibilities, but for a company that’s so devoted to design — heck, it even stamps…