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  • The Dream

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    E-Ink announced their prototype electronic book display last week. Finally, the dream of a portable, long-lasting electronic book reader may finally be upon us. The contrast and resolution of the display (160dpi) look quite acceptable and I’m not really bothered about the fact that it has no colour; neither do any of my paperbacks. As…

  • Oops

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    Something is wrong with Wired’s China statistics. They say that China sells 15.6 trillion books per year. In a country of 1.3 billion, that’s about 14,000 books per person. Spread over the world population, that’s almost 3,000 books per person. Somehow I doubt that China really does sell 15.6 trillion books per year.

  • On Time

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    Potter books give Amazon amazing success – Good news! According to this article, Amazon UK wil be sending out copies of Harry Potter 5 in time for the official release of June 21st. This means no agonized wait for me…

  • Dark Side

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    A Note to Parents about our Magic Wands at Alivan’s Wand Makers – “…an Alivan’s wand is only meant to stimulate your child’s growing imagination. Our company does not, in any way, support the dark side of magic. In fact, we completely discourage it.” I love this kind of stuff.

  • Harry Potter and the Pre-Order of Doom

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    I have a dilemma. More accurately, I had a dilemma; only time will tell whether I made the right choice. See, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is coming out in 76 days (June 21st). I’m quite keen to get my hands on a copy; I’m not exactly fanatical about it, but the…

  • Pride and Extreme Prejudice

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    Pride and Extreme Prejudice – possibly the funniest thing I have read this year. A couple of SF authors have come up with the idea of a Terminator/Pride and Prejudice crossover on rec.arts.sf.written and are current writing it piecemeal, to the delight of the newsgroup regulars. It should, nay, must be published as a full…

  • The future of libraries

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    Idea Stores – apparently these are the libraries of the future in the UK, doing more than just lending out books. Sounds like an interesting idea although I will withhold judgement for now.

  • N. S.

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    Browsing through my website logs and stats, as I am wont to do when there is nothing else going on, I’ve just discovered that the most searched-for term for my website is “Neal Stephenson”; other such irrelevent terms as “Adrian Hon” come in a distant fifth. Of course, this is because Neal Stephenson is a…

  • Freedom Evolves

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    Just finished reading Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennett. It took me only four days to accomplish this, which is a great improvement from previous philosophy books that took me several weeks to finish (or I never ended up finishing them). This presents several possibilites, which I’ve listed in increasing order of likelihood: 1) My IQ…

  • Geeks With Books

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    Geeks With Books – a nice little article about what it’s like to work in a used SF bookstore. “I never count on having Philip K. Dick books. They tend to stay around for about twenty minutes. When I shelve his books, I worry about losing a finger since they sell so fast.”