Culture and Society
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Handwriting and Retention
When I got my first laptop (a PowerBook 180) I thought it would be just the thing for taking notes in my graduate classes, particularly since I’ve always loathed my very obviously dyslexic…
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I Need a Shredder
It’s been just over a month since I started my digital migration. I’m making slow but steady progress on getting rid of paper. I’ve been getting digital statements where possible for several years…
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The Less Paper Home
I can remember all the stuff about the “paperless office” quite well, and even at the time, I didn’t believe it. Nor did I necessarily think going totally digital was a viable option…
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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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Creepy iPhone App Demonstrates Problems with Location Data and Privacy
From a Cult of Mac article by John Brownlee: These are all girls with publicly visible Facebook profiles who have checked into these locations recently using Foursquare. Girls Around Me then shows you…
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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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Public Library Ebooks and Overdrive
Michael Cohen, over at Tidbits, has written a piece about downloading a DRM protected ebook via his local public library. His library like mine uses technology and books provided by Overdrive, Inc. The books in question…
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Why Technology Fails to Stop Book Theft
Various forms of technology intended to control who could read books have failed. All of them have failed, and largely, for the same reasons. We have first the book curse, sometime called a…