Currently reading The Moses Expedition: A Novel by Juan Gomez-Jurado [$9.99 at Kindle Store]. It's right up there with Tom Clancy for keeping you on the edge of your seat. And the good news . . . like Clancy he's written several books with some of these same characters so there's more adventures to come. The bad news . . . my book allowance is already tapped out for this month. I blame it all on the heat. It's way too hot to do anything but read and blog.
If you have ever considered speaking in front of a group of people - genealogical or otherwise - you may want to take a look at Thomas MacEntee's new Kindle book, Approaching the Lectern: How to Become a Genealogy Speaker
Thomas, how long before you have an ePub version published?
EPUB will eventually win out because it's an open-source standard based on the already universal standard that is HTML. It is text-based and non-proprietary which means that any computer can read it. That means any desktop computer, any mobile computer, any tablet.
Liz is spot on! Read the entire article. I totally agree with her on this.
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Yesterday, I spent a lazy afternoon watching an episode of Return to Cranford, a Masterpiece Classic I had DVR'd months ago. I only had one episode recorded so I went on a quest for the other. Netflix didn't have it for online viewing, but did note that it was based on the "classic novels of celebrated Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell". Hmmm. That meant 19th century and public domain! So off I went to FeedBooks to find not only Cranford, but an impressive collection of Elizabeth's books.
There are a lot of other Masterpiece productions available as public domain ebooks. I saw an advertisement that Masterpiece Mystery will be broadcasting some Sherlock Holmes stories this fall. I love British mysteries - especially Agatha Christie. Some of her stuff is beginning to show up in the public domain libraries and the ones that aren't are very reasonably priced.
We are all familiar with HTML (hypertext markup language) as the language of the web, but did you know that it's also quickly becoming the language of electronic books. The ePub standard, which is used for Apple's iBooks, Barnes & Noble's Nook and a significant number of the public domain libraries, is basically a series of HTML pages with a stylesheet and a configuration file all compressed into one "zip" file. Why is this so interesting? The key part of HTML is text - plain old ordinary text that any computer and any app can read.
The HTML Revolution - are you part of it?
Saving dozens of e-mail file attachments to your computer just became a hell of a lot easier.
Google (
) has added a new feature to Gmail (
via mashable.com
Great news for Gmail users!
Not all data, mind you. The new rule wouldn’t reach the content of e-mail messages, but it would let them find out whom you’re e-mailing, when you’re e-mailing, and, er, “possibly” which websites you’re looking at and which Google searches you’re running.
via hotair.com
This is scary!