Category Archives: online
90-second “A Wrinkle in Time” is like a Spark Notes video made by tiny, insane actors
The problem with old age, or Internet overdoses, or vitamin B12 deficiency (that’s today’s health story), is that you forget the classics. For example, I know Charlotte was a spider, but did she save her pig-baby from a bejeweled Hobbit? … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, books, contests, funny, online
Tagged childrens books, classics, clips, comedy, contests, film festivals, humor, kids, libraries, literature, newbery, nypl, summaries
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Dehydrated books, or how to make money off of fan fiction and unauthorized sequels
Imagine that this evening I follow a friend’s link to a new Harry Potter book, one that essentially replaces “The Sorcerer’s Stone” in the canon with a Year 1 adventure that’s darker and closer in tone to the final few … Continue reading
Posted in business, commentary, copyright, DIY, ebooks, ideas, online
Tagged amateur, copyright, digital, fanfic, fans, ideas, infringement, publishing, technology, tools
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Fan-made app lets you play Zork and other titles offline
The details: It requires the same unofficial hack used to install screensavers and fonts. It’s still under development so it may be buggy. As with all Kindle hacks, use at your own risk. Download it at Andrew de Quincey’s livejournal … Continue reading
Posted in active content, apps, DIY, free, games, Kindle, Kindle 2, Kindle 3, Kindle DX, online, software, text
Tagged active content, adventure games, apps, hacks, if, interactive fiction, kindle, text based games, z-machine, z5, zork
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The New Yorker book blog pretends it’s 2008, trashes ebooks
It makes me cringe when The New Yorker stumbles, even if the accident happens on one of its blog divisions and not within an actual issue. Maybe I’m hero-worshipping too much, but I like to think the writers and editors … Continue reading
Posted in commentary, ebooks, Kindle, online
Tagged anti-kindle, books blog, dumb, ebooks, editorials, new yorker, old fashioned, rants
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Is a Kindle bullet proof? There’s one quick way to find out.
“Can a book save your life?” That’s what Tom Shillue of the literary journal Electric Literature asks in the clip above, and you can tell he should be taken very seriously because he does that TV news journalist walk toward … Continue reading
Posted in authors, books, funny, hardware, Kindle 2, offbeat, online
Tagged bullets, firing ranges, franzen, funny, guns, journals, Kindle 2, literature, moody, silly, videos, will it blend
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Looking for Kindle help? Don't get taken advantage of by opportunists
A convenience fee: something you pay when your time is too valuable to waste looking up Kindle info. A stupidity fee: when you pay a stranger cash for information that is not only free, but easier to access in its … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, free, how to, online, resources
Tagged Amazon, free ebooks, free kindle content, help, kindle, ripoffs, tutorials, user guides, warnings
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Why it’s sometimes good for writers to build on each other’s work
Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon writing out my idea for how fanfic and other writers could theoretically use digital technology to bypass copyright roadblocks. What inspired me was the recent story about an unauthorized sequel to “The Catcher … Continue reading →