This coffee shop still life comes to you from Coffee & Company at 53 Pricess Street in Kingston, Ontario. Impressively, it has no web site. Which is not to say it’s unwired; most of us are bent over screens of one size or another. “The password is bagel,” the barrista answered when I asked if [...]
We were reading our Kindles at the beach when an autumn breeze came up. So I fetched additional layers of clothing up at the cottage and returned with a bag of almonds and a root beer. Our friend Holly, a quilter and a Mainer undaunted by cold water, rode waves and swam for a good [...]
Our six guests have returned to Nebraska. The old cottage sighs and settles into the rhythms of a man, woman, and a very small dog. We are all on the same bed on the second floor, listening to the surf and a sultry Pandora mix based on “The Girl from Ipanema.” Fog hides the horizon. [...]
I’m on a Southwest flight, half way from Boston to Denver. In my “Life Is Good” cloth bag, I’m toting a Kindle 6-inch and the iPad on which I’m drafting this post in the Pages app. I told Bryan Person last month that if I had to choose between the iPad and the Kindle [...]
Yesterday I launched a project to provide free Kindles for U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan. I chose Kandahar because of the letter K, but also because it’s the general region where Army Sgt. Andre B. Corbin will serve when he deploys later this month. He will be toting a new 6-inch Global Wireless Kindle and [...]
I have decided to take a five-month break from politics. To some extent, I have Steve Jobs to thank for this decision. Apple’s handing down of its new tablet on Wednesday has turned the eBook space white hot. The iPad will have a new iBooks app, a direct attack on the Kindle’s dominance of eBooks. [...]
1. Cory Doctorow and Stephen King have hijacked my Kindle with great fiction reads. My pre-ordered copy of King’s Under the Dome arrived, as promised, on Christmas Eve. It’s scary how well he tells a story. I suspect that I will soon be drawn into a dead run toward the end of the story, even [...]
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