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I Love My Kindle Paperwhite
One of the things that has been especially useful during the year of COVID-19 isolation has been my Kindle PaperWhite ereader. I was an early convert to ebooks, and not just because I…
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A Reading Plan to Reduce My TBR Stack of Books
I never used to have anything I’d call a TBR (To Be Read) pile of books. Even in grad school by using a reading plan I managed to keep up with reading for…
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Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner by Joe Kissell
In 2007 Joe Kissell, an able an adept technical writer about all things Macintosh with a serious interest in preparing and consuming good food, turned his geekly technical writing skills to documenting the…
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Exporting Your Books and Data From Goodreads
I like social networking sites for bibliophiles. I’ve tried most of them. My favorite is LibraryThing.com. Goodreads.com used to be a close second. The recent idiocies surrounding Goodreads has had me re-thinking my…
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Meet iPhoto for iOS
Today is the official release date for my new ePub ebook from Peachpit. Meet iPhoto for iOS is a quick introduction to using iPhoto on iOS 6.x to organize, caption, crop, rotate, edit,…
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Ebook Pricing vs Print Pricing
It really isn’t that much cheaper to produce an ebook. The binding/printing costs are depending on the book and the binding and the numbers printed somewhere around 1 to 3 bucks a book,…
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It’s Complicated
This is a really smart article by Mathew Ingram: “Our Relationship with E-Books: It’s Complicated“. Ingram quite even-handedly covers the bases on sharing ebooks and ebook annotations, complete with lots of links, in…
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Take Control of Using Lion Matt Neuberg
After upgrading to Mac OS X Lion while following along in Joe Kissell’s Take Control of Upgrading to Lion, I began reading Matt Neuberg’s Take Control of Using Lion, and I’m awfully glad…
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The Mac OS X Lion Project Book Scott McNulty
I should confess right up front that The Mac OS X Lion Project Book is from Peachpit, my publisher. Scott McNulty has been writing about the Mac for a long time, and I…
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Take Control of Upgrading to Lion Joe Kissell
Joe Kissell’s book is hands down the best guide I’ve seen to upgrading to Lion. He takes you through the questions you need to answer before upgrading, downloading the installer and backing up,…