Monthly Archives: March 2010
Where are my 3D glasses when I need them?
Thumbing my way through books.google.com this evening as I am wont to do, I was flabbergasted to find a new feature — . Click it and you notice the page image of a scanned book is skewed/haloed with orange and … Continue reading
Free downloads to Kindle from RetroRead
OK — so I’ve busted free from the “you need to email your books to your Kindle” bag for RetroRead. It is slick, and the most convenient way to get your books, but does have the drawback of requiring you … Continue reading
It’s official: blitzesblog.com
Of course, blitzes.bltcpress.com still points here too …
New Features at RetroRead
… you can now configure your RetroRead profile to have converted books sent to your notification email address rather than your Kindle device email address. Useful for avoiding the download charges for large files, or, if you don’t have a … Continue reading
blitzesblog.com, coming soon!
OK, since I’m actually starting to blog here, I’ve realized that blitzes.bltcpress.com is a bit of a mouthful … so I’ve acquired blitzesblog.com (notice link is not active yet). Will be re-hosting “Blitzes and BLTCPress” here shortly!
Downloads at RetroRead, Wikipedia
The latest new feature at www.retroread.com is the ability for anyone — unregistered users, that is — to access any of the latest (latest being up to the most recent 100 converted titles) books by downloading them directly to their … Continue reading
re: retroread
My current front burner project has been the development of www.retroread.com, a site which allows Kindle owners to easily convert epubs from the vast library of public domain works scanned by Google and have them show up on their Kindle. … Continue reading
More re: iPad
…well I post my iPad, iShmad note and then come across Jason Perlow’s Why I Will Be Getting an iPad listing all the reasons to get one … he includes “great ebook platform among them”. This is the same Jason … Continue reading
Old efnord post …
Well this is the one (and only) post from my other ebook blog, efnord, posted back in February 2009. Reposted here for archival purposes, meanwhile, will be pointing efnord.com (love that name …) to here. After all, how many blogs … Continue reading
iPad iShmad
Hmm, we’ll wait and see about the iPad … all the hype about it being an ebook platform is interesting, -ish. No doubt Steve, bless him, wants to rule the world of ebook media as well, since it looks like … Continue reading
