The first article in this series of musings, In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I), brought a lot of comment, particularly on blogs that reprinted it. Most commenters disagreed with me, and several of the commenters compared an author’s uniqueness and a book’s worth to a painting.
Entries from April 27th, 2011
CVS shipped me the wrong Sylvania tablet
April 26th, 2011 · 6 Comments · hardware reviews
Yesterday I got my Sylvania 7″ tablet and as I am wont to do I posted about my first impressions. Then I started looking for more info on the tablet (I was hoping for a hacked firmware) and I found something rather interesting. There are actually several models floating around under the one name. If [...]
10″ Augen Genbook 108 Android netbook – $99
April 25th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
1SaleaDay has the Augen Genbook 108 on sale right now. You have 7 more hours to buy this netbook. According to the old K-mart listing, this netbook is running Android v2.1. on an 800MHz CPU. That’s decent but not spectacular. It also has Wifi, a SD card slot, ethernet, and 2GB Flash.I would assume it [...]
Update: Sylvania 7″ Android tablet IS CRAP
April 25th, 2011 · 47 Comments · hardware reviews
CVS is selling a 7″ Android tablet for $99. I’ve been trying to get one for a while now, and I finally got one when they added it to their website. It’s a pretty decent tablet for $99, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll keep it for my collection. But I’m also seeing a weird [...]
In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I)
April 25th, 2011 · 8 Comments · opinion
Some questions have no answer, or at least not a universal answer. This is true of this question: In the era of ebooks, what is a book worth? Yet, every day, ebookers are making that value judgement, including in their calculation of whether or not to buy an ebook what they believe is the worth of a [...]
How to Read this blog
April 24th, 2011 · No Comments · blog maintenance
At long last I have updated the RSS feed for this blog. I’d really appreciate it if people could switch over to the new RSS feed. TDR had a different name when I started it back in January 2010. When I changed the name of the blog (and the website address) I didn’t bother changing [...]
Amazon share the Android blindspot
April 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
There was a post here. I decided to reconsider the post and deleted it. It will probably show up at a later date.
Amazon’s second missed opportunity
April 22nd, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
So yesterday I posted about how Amazon missed an opportunity to get ahead of their competition. They could have developed an improved version of the Kindle file format back before the Kindle launched and released it with the new gadget. As I was writing a footnote to that post, I thought of a second opportunity [...]
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I still don’t believe Amazon are working on a tablet
April 21st, 2011 · 20 Comments · opinion
So the “Amazon tablet” rumors reach a fever pitch today with one of the bloggers with gdgt posting a long explanation of why he thinks Samsung are building the Amazon tablet. I respect his opinion and his right to argue a position that has so little factual basis. I’ve done the same before, so I [...]
Houston, We Have A Problem
April 21st, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
I’ve been thinking about the Overdrive/Amazon announcement that will bring the Kindle into the device fold for library eBook lending and I have to say it raises concerns for me. In addition to the questions raised by Bobbi Newman, Jason Griffey, and Sarah Houghton-Jan (all very sharp queries), I think libraries are poorly positioned for [...]
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