Holidays musing—on e-books and LibraryCity
E-books aren’t like regular books—they’re invisible except on the screen of a computer. Particularly at a time when so many
The Solomon Scandals novel, politicians, the media, the Washington area, tech and other surrealism:
E-books aren’t like regular books—they’re invisible except on the screen of a computer. Particularly at a time when so many
Note: This is an expanded version of my talk to the Washington Biography Group on Monday at Washington International School.
With so many local libraries facing cutbacks, the case for a well-stocked national digital library system grows stronger each day.
The new Google eBookstore, a rival to the Kindle Store, didn’t disappoint me when I tried it just now. Books
DRMed library e-books—at least ePub and PDF ones from the OverDrive service for public libraries—are now readable on the iPad,
Philip Roth was an evil literary influence on me. I don’t write like him, but love his sarcasm, irony and
The Solomon Scandals is mostly about yesterday, but e-books do show up briefly in the afterword. We learn about the
Remember my optimism about Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, the play by the Engel twins, based