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 [...]
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My personal journey into ebooks
March 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Tags: Books · Google · Literature · My Life · Web/Tech
Updates coming…
October 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments
I am trying to be busier and productive now that I’m a little rested from last week. I am trying to prioritize, and trying not to feel guilty about “owing” various folks here something or other. I’ve been busy and want to mention some of these things here in more detail: The Wailin’ Jennys on [...]
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Siva at GSLIS, UIUC
October 9th, 2006 · 9 Comments
Siva Vaidhyanathan, of Sivacracy.net, author of several books, and NYU professor, will be at GSLIS on Thursday to deliver this year’s Windsor Lecture. This talk will explore the ways that large-scale digitization projects such as Google Book Search affect those who research and write books. It will examine the ways full-text searches might affect research, [...]
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