I previously touched on both the broken drm of the adobe epub format as well as the idea of using the archos as an ebook reader. I decided to do some further experimentation in this area. For the record, I actually don’t have any personal interest in ebooks but was simply curious about what was [...]
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I keep coming back to our circ stats based book recommendations because it is an evolving system. Each month, I load new circ data into it which changes the recommendations. After I load the data, I always spend a few minutes poking around to see if anything interesting has happened. I have a few favourite author [...] I recently read Akira Hiramoto’s Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson, Book One and have now moved on to book two. Although this is a Japanese graphic novel, it is not drawn in what I would refer to as the “typical manga style” which I’ve always found kind of childish [...] This book arrived at the library this week. Subtitled “Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present”, it purports to compile the 500 best songs from the last 30 years. Such lists are always fraught with peril and the fact this is from Pitchfork makes it doubly so for me. I have a [...] There’s been some talk about Zoomii in the couple weeks since it launched. It’s definitely a cool idea. Also noteworthy is the fact the site’s creator is from right here in town. There was a lengthy thread on the ngc mailing list about it the week I was on vacation which I have not read yet. [...] I’m glad to see Hard Case Crime have moved on from ripping off Gold Medal to ripping off Ace instead! Of course, I’m joking. I always loved the idea of the Ace Doubles and I’m pleased they’re back. The Ace Doubles in the photo: a Philip K. Dick two-fer and three Harry Whittington westerns. Whittington [...] Just reading this graphic novel now, can’t say I’m thrilled with it but it’s certainly worth reading for anyone in the library field (what other comic features Ranganathan’s 5 laws of library science on the title page?). Definitely a unique comic… I’ve recently been reading a couple digital photography books from the library and have found The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby to be indispensable. I was really drawn in by the book’s subtitle “the step-by-step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pros”. The book is geared towards SLR owners but [...] This is an interesting interview; I guess the interviewer is some kind of jazz musician and Allan Guthrie is a current writer of hardboiled from Scotland. I will have to check him out. Covers a lot of ground in the history of hardboiled, a lot of which I’m familiar with but also some good recommendations. [...] This is a book review from the Children’s section of our website: I like Green Eggs and Ham because it is really funny. It is funny because Sam tries to force the guy to eat green eggs and ham. At the end the guy tries the green eggs and ham and when the guy tries the [...] |
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