Searching the iBookstore for titles is almost as maddening as searching the Appstore for apps, and I don’t understand why that is still such a mess.
Searching this evening for titles by Maurice G. Dantec, I noticed that searching by the author’s last name seems to trigger a spell-check, and there’s no way to turn it off. Instead of getting results for “Dantec,” the results are automatically replaced with results for “Dante.”
I got suckered into watching Babylon A.D. yesterday evening. Just when I thought I might lose interest, Toorop, played by Vin Diesel, goes back to his padlocked apartment (the car door hanging from a metal frame in the living room brought a fresh touch to the obligatory urban decay of the interior) and switches on the TV while he prepares his dinner. Although the sequence in which he skins, dismembers and chops up a deer was visceral, it was the layout of the TV screen that caught my eye:
I was startled to see this poster on my way to the store this morning, almost as if images of my recent thoughtful preoccupations were being projected onto the billboards in the streets.
Judging from the continued traffic, more people than I expected are interested in books by William Faulkner. I hope my post helps them find what they’re looking for.
Since the iBookstore recently opened in Switzerland, I am now able to see how many of Faulkner’s eBooks are actually available to iBookstore customers here.
Slate ran an article last month about homesteaders of the last century, Oh snap!: Homesteader Postcards, The Facebook of 1906.
Stop and think about this. When was the last time you saw the world mourn the passing of a CEO and one of the richest men on the planet?
Flowers at Apple Store Ginza
Something profound has happened. In no small part, due to Steve Job’s vision, we have become something more than what we were before.
Let us not forget that.
Photo Credit: Flowers at Apple Store Ginza from the Flickr photostream of pietrozuco
This post was created entirely on my iPhone during my lunch break.
The Apple iBookstore opened in Switzerland last Wednesday. I heard from @mikecane on Twitter, who sent me this link. Until now, the store only contained public domain Gutenberg Project titles, and the only way to get other books into the store was to purchase DRM-free ebooks as ePub or PDF, or convert them from another format if not available.
When I first opened the Bookstore, the Featured page looked no different than it had since April 2010.
Seems like it’s official: the tablet wars have started. I saw this post, Kindle Fire vs. iPad: Which is right for you? today via @e_reading on Twitter.
Doug Gross compares the announced price and features of the Kindle Fire with an Apple iPad. Interesting, but ultimately meaningless. Yes, price is a very important factor, but as for the rest, it’s much less of the story than you might think.
The specs of my new PC laptop are just as impressive as my MacBook’s, maybe better, but I’d still choose my MacBook over my PC every time because it’s just so much easier to use. It’s not the camera, the microphone, the GSM data or the GPS that make the device work. It’s the software, and it’s the way the software works with the hardware.
My BlackBerry has a GPS and Google maps, but they’re practically unusable for me because I find the interface so clumsy.
If Amazon gets the Kindle Fire experience right, and we won’t know until someone gets their hands on one, then you can start to worry about which one has a camera or which one has longer battery life. Until then, it doesn’t really matter.
Summer doesn’t seem to want to leave. The weather was perfect this afternoon for a walk in the forest. The view of the lac de Vouglans from the belvedere of Château Richard was splendid.
The well-prepared mind 