Love the Book

I encourage reading. I’ve tried to do it here and there and elsewhere, noting a variety of excellent reasons to do so. I tend to think that reading in general and thoughtful reading in particular need all the support they can get. My suspicion is that if people are reading, books will get their fair share of attention.

But some people just really love books. And who am I to stand in their way? It’s delightful when someone exposes such passion in unfettered terms. That’s what James Emery White has done on his Serious Times website.

He even makes an ardent case for not just reading books but for buying them, marking them and keeping them.

May his tribe increase.

When Geekdom Is Changed Forever

No, it’s not an invasion of killer bees that you hear. It’s the buzz around the Apple tablet, which could bridge laptops and hand-held devices while offering a great book-reading experience.

Barnes & Noble shares have bumped up on rumors that it will have a role in the new device.

The web is alive with fake sneak peaks.

How scared is Amazon? Will Apple dislodge the Kindle from its place of primacy?

International Business Times says the market is out there for the tablet, and it’s big.

Will Apple, the ultimate purveyor of cool devices, hit another home run with an iTablet? T-Day is Wednesday.

Francis Schaeffer: Fifty Years after Time

Fifty years ago today, Time magazine published an article on Francis Schaeffer, who with his wife founded “one of the most unusual missions in the Western world.” What made their ministry, nestled in the Swiss Alps, so different? They focused on intellectuals–artists, musicians, students, atheists, Jews, Catholics and Protestants–an eclectic mix of people that in 1960 the church tended to neglect.
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What I Read in 2009

I continue my annual tradition of listing the books I’ve read in the past year, in the order I read them. Reading is part of my job, but I enjoy the busman’s holiday of reading on my own time. Some of the books I borrowed, some I bought, some were given to me and some I got from the library. Several I listened to while riding around town on errands and commuting to work. In those cases, I’ve linked to the audio version.

So here are the books of 2009:
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