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A few more thoughts on reading last year and this

January 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

In my recent Books Read in 2009 post I talked a bit about what I read last yea and a few other aspects of reading. In this post I want to touch on a few other issues, some of which are orthogonal ways of looking at what I read last year; so partially an update, [...]

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Tags: Books · Ebook reading · Literature · My Life

Books Read in 2009

December 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments

Not sure what any of this means, or why, it is, or if, of importance. Much can be seen of my book reading habits over the last 3 years at this blog [see links at end of post]. According to previous posts, it looks like another banner year in the Lindner household for book reading. [...]

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Tags: Books · Ebook reading · Literature · My Life

Update: My personal journey into ebooks

June 29th, 2009 · Comments Off

Back in March I wrote a longish post about “My personal journey into ebooks.” Things have since changed so I feel that I ought to add some commentary to those thoughts.
As a caveat, these comments only pertain to me, at least as intended. They may apply to you as an individual reader but I do [...]

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Tags: Books · My Life · Web/Tech

Sometimes – Song series 1

March 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments

when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can see your soul
out of sight,
your deep dark secrets
ebb and flow like the tide
but all that i see
are infinite spectrums of possibility
when i look deep in your eyes, i swear i can reach your soul
i love the infinite distances
that exist between us.
with persistence, our reach
will [...]

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Tags: Literature · Music · My Life

My personal journey into ebooks

March 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Recently I began reading ebooks. Before I address which books specifically and related issues let me put a few things on the table.
Preliminaries:
This post is about my experiences in the recent present and not about the future of what will or might be (even if I comment on that).
I have read quite a fair number [...]

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Tags: Books · Google · Literature · My Life · Web/Tech

4th blog anniversary

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Back on 29 January 2005 …the thoughts are broken… debuted. That link now goes to the 1st post of this blog since I migrated to WordPress in July 2006.
Wow! Four years already. I haven’t been doing much here since about the middle of last year and I’d like to get back to it. But. I [...]

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Tags: Books · My Life · Weblogs

Books read in the 2nd half of 2008

January 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

For assorted reasons my book reading greatly increased this past year. Based on that I split this list into two, posting the 1st half (or so) on 11 August in a post titled Books read in 1st half of 2008 (and some).
In the earlier post, I reported reading 26 books and re-reading 3 books. This [...]

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Tags: Books · Literature · My Life

Some things about the new year

January 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Not sure where this blog is going this year. I said some things last year about where I wanted to take it / thought it might go and it got nowhere near any of those places.
I read through all of my posts for 2008 on the 1st and 2nd. Wow! What a year! Talk about [...]

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Tags: Books · Friends · Job search · My Life · WordPress · Work

It is time to take another road, on which she does not smile

September 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

I have remarked here before about how little poetry I have read in my life.  Most of it has been in the last few years, and most of that in the last year.
I wrote a couple of poems when I was an adolescent and/or teenager—when I use the word “poem” to refer to my own [...]

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Tags: Books · Literature · My Life

Where is the guy who runs this blog?

September 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

That is a complicated question for which I have very little that I can or will say directly.
WordPress upgraded
I did just upgrade WordPress to the newest version so if anyone is still reading this feel free to click through to the blog proper and see if you see anything amiss. Thanks.
Some reasons for being quiet
Recently [...]

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Tags: Books · Librariana · Military and War · Morality · My Life · Professionalism