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Things I learned on my Pennsylvania trip last week, that I didn’t learn from my trip last year:
Pennsylvania has strange beer laws. You can’t buy beer in grocery stores or liquor stores (!), but you can buy it at convenience stores and “beer distributors”. Also, I think you can buy six packs in […]

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Back when I was on the Cancun vacation, I finally finished reading the novel Olympos by Dan Simmons, after a few false starts and a couple of years. Since I read very few books at all these day, that was a major accomplishment. It’s a large book. Olympos is the sequel (actually […]

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I’m still recovering from vacation and trying to catch up on stuff around the house, so this is going to be short. I mentioned in this post that an additional problem with ebooks, or at least with the way I read ebooks from my Palm T|X PDA, is that the screen is not really […]

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Reportedly, publisher Penguin is now saying they are going to be releasing their books in ebook format as well as the regular paperly kind. I found out about this from this post, which amusingly mentions “the ebook bandwagon”.
When we were discussing this several months ago, I thought the whole ebook thing was essentially dead […]

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Arthur C. Clarke, “hard” science fiction writer and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Though I admired what he was able to do: bring a sense of real science to the genre (despite detours into weird and quasi-mystical elements like the monolith in 2001), I was […]

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Faithful reader Janet asks, in the comments to yesterday’s post: Hey Flassherooni, to continue an earlier conversation, would you consider devoting a NaBloPoMo entry to your thoughts on Kindle?
Good question, Librarian, and thanks for the topic. (Note: See my recent thoughts on eBooks here and here.) On first perusal, it looks pretty darn […]

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