My Kindle Paperwhite died last week after a long period of faithful service. A period in which it was used almost every day, in which it was charged about once a month and a time in which it never failed… Read More ›
Books
Amazon’s Japanese Kindle
Japanese comics, called manga, are hugely popular. Although you probably knew that, you probably don’t know the extent of it. In 2015, Japan’s bestselling manga series, One Piece, sold more than 14 million copies. It helps that the format runs… Read More ›
eBook vs physical book
eBook all the way for me and that has been the case since the Psion PDAs. How about you?
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth
Inspired by the “Overview Effect”–a sensation that astronauts experience when given the opportunity to look down and view the Earth as a whole–the breathtaking, high definition satellite photographs in OVERVIEW offer a new way to look at the landscape that… Read More ›
Instapaper is ‘still’ better than Pocket
I love read it later services and have used them for many years, but it seems to me as though Pocket is dominating the market, and undeservedly so. If you want to store lots of different media Pocket wins, but… Read More ›
Short stories via vending machine
In a time where progression in every field of human endeavour involves ever smarter phones, virtual reality or colonising Mars, it is of some comfort to hear that a new innovation exciting people across the Channel involves none of the… Read More ›
The Circle review
I’m terrible for actually finishing books and I admit that it only happens about 50% of the time. I read a lot, but it is very easy for me to lose interest, but now and then a book will grab… Read More ›
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