So yes, I know I’ve been way behind on the Palm ebooks lately. I’ve got a bunch queued up to convert but just haven’t had the time or energy lately to do so. But here’s a taste of what I have in the hopper: De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Sherlock Holmes The Canterbury Tales James… Continue reading Ebook lag
Category: eBooks
The Scottish Play
I just uploaded the Palm Reader file for Macbeth to the ebooks page, and holy crap, I forgot how messed up that play is until I was converting it. Shakespeare must have been in a very, very dark mood when he was writing it. Enjoy.
Gradual
Obviously I’ve not been very motivated to write much lately. I’m up to my elbows in Cryptonomicon and loving it, so that’s been eating up much of my free time. But today I updated several parts of the site, most notably the ebooks page, where I’m rolling out a better layout and feature set for… Continue reading Gradual
New Cory Doctorow Ebooks
I’ve just added six new Palm Reader ebooks to my ebooks page that are really short stories from Cory Doctorow’s new book, A Place So Foreign and Eight More. There’s still one more short story I need to convert, and then I’ll combine them all into one big book download. Enjoy. And thank Cory!
New Ebooks!
On my ebooks page I’ve just linked up two new, modern Palm Reader ebooks by Rob Callahan, who is generously offering these up for free (under the Creative Commons license) on his site, and was nice enough to email me to let me know. Awesome! The more there are current books that can be freely… Continue reading New Ebooks!
Some Items.
Item 1. My in-laws are in town, from today until Sunday. This always causes some tension around here, as my wife doesn’t get along very well with her parents, but the kids just love them, so all’s well. Plus, they’ll watch the kids one night so we can finally go see The Matrix Reloaded. Item… Continue reading Some Items.
Site Updates
I’ve been busy on this site the last few days with updates and revisions. To wit: Got the search feature working (finally). This is using MySQL’s built-in FULLTEXT indexing capabilities; it’s pretty slick, the first time I’ve played with it. It does natural language searches using frequency of keywords to produce relevancy scores… if you… Continue reading Site Updates
Moving right along…
A few random things. php|architect is offering a free issue of their new magazine. Anyone who’s into PHP should check this out. I found a neat site today called StoryMania. From their own description, they’re an “online community and marketplace for publishing, discovering, reviewing, buying and selling creative works — interact directly with authors and… Continue reading Moving right along…
Palm Reader eBooks
I’ve been merrily playing with the Sony CLIÉ that I got for my birthday, installing apps and loading it up with data, and one of my bright ideas is to start playing around with eBooks. See, the CLIÉ runs the PalmOS, for which there is a really nifty free eBook Palm Reader available from Palm… Continue reading Palm Reader eBooks