Evil Wylie created this bracket over on EvilReads. It pokes fun at how Borders are closing stores by comparing it to the elimination rounds of NCAA basketball. All the stores on this bracket come from the first list of 200 stores scheduled for closure. If you want, you could track the stores as they close. [...]
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PDF & Epub on the Asus eeeNote
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews
I came across a blog last night where someone had been documenting his experiences with the Asus eeeNote. He bought one back at the beginning of January, can you believe it? Asus really put a lot of work into this thing. The eeeNote has some impressive annotation abilities including scribbles, typed notes, and bookmarks. You [...]
How to read a PDF on an Android tablet
December 19th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Android, tips and tricks
If you are reading this then you have probably found yourself in need of a PDR reading app. (If you’re in a hurry, scroll down to the end.) So did I, and after looking here and there I found a number of free PDF readers. In order to save myself some trouble next time around, [...]
Free comic strip collection from Geek and Poke (PDF)
December 12th, 2010 · No Comments · free ebooks
A couple minutes ago I posted a strip from the geek and poke comic. While I was on their site, I noticed that they are giving away their first comic strip collection on scribd. If you appreciate my sense of humor, then you might like this strip. You can also buy it in paper. scribd [...]
Save a tree – use .wwf instead of PDF
December 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebook tools
The World Wildlife Fund hve announced a new “save a tree” initiative. They’ve developed printer drivers for a new document format called WWF (it’s based on PDF), and they want you to use it instead of PDFs. Why? Because unlike PDFs, it can’t be printed. Okay, WWF actually is PDF, and it’s slightly silly for [...]
What’s the best free PDF app for Android?
November 29th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Android
I want to do a survey of free PDF apps for Android. Unfortunately, I don’t know of very many. What’s your favorite, and what’s good? BTW, there’s one catch. It has to be accessible outside the Android Market. It would also be great if it ran on v1.5. So far I’ve tried and discarded txtr [...]
2 Free PDFs by Michael Giest
October 16th, 2010 · No Comments · free ebooks
I came across a new book by Michael Giest the other day. He’s a law professor and legal expert on Canadian copyright, and he has 2 books available for download as PDFs. The first was just published: This book represents an effort by some of Canada’s leading copyright experts to shift away from the sloganeering [...]
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Apple Pages ’09 now supports Epub export
August 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news
Apple’s word processing app Pages has been updated so you can now save your document in Epub and PDF. This means that Apple just added an export option to Pages that Open Office has had since the middle of last year. For more details you should visit the Pages support page, or go over to [...]
Foxit Phantom PDF Suite now has OCR support
August 10th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the press release: Foxit Corporation, a leader in PDF software solutions, today announced the release of Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 2.1, the newest version of its business-ready PDF software toolkit for viewing, editing, creating, designing, organizing, securing professional PDF documents and streamlining business processes.Foxit Phantom PDF Suite 2.1 has been updated to include many [...]
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