Exploring Books, Life, and Writing
“Meetings don’t get work done. Meetings create work.”
I’ve said that so many times I’ve almost convinced myself that I originated the aphorism. But probably it came from my predecessor, Jim Sire. (Unless he stole it from someone else.)
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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.
I’m a very slow reader. Always have been. And yet when people hear of the books I’ve read over the course of a year, they tell me they wish they could read more. I’ve found several reading strategies to be very helpful. Even if you employ just one of the ideas below, you can read a half dozen or more books in a year:
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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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Last week I posted what I read in 2009. Here’s the best, the most, the worst and the biggest of what I read this past year:
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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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Dan Reid pointed out to me a comment left on a sister IVP blog, Addenda & Errata.
The comment: Tell us what you think about a piece by Steven Piersanti, president of Berrett-Koehler Publishers, titled “The 10 Awful Truths About Book Publishing.”
The response: This brief piece with a provocative title is a reality check for everyone connected to book publishing.
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In a comment on my recent post, Mark Denning asked what I thought about Stephen “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” Covey moving electronic rights to some of his books exclusively to Amazon, as reported in this morning’s New York Times. So here are some first thoughts, Mark.
Continue reading “Proving a Publisher’s Worth”
Regular Andy Unedited reader Jadell alerted me to this item from Jeffrey Brown. Where is the book going? Where is reading going? That’s the question Brown wants to tackle in an occasional series for PBS.
Continue reading “The Next Chapter of Reading”
Want a handy summary of the Kindles, Nooks, Pockets and Cool-ers of the world? Danielle Belopotosky offers us a good overview of the variety of e-reader devices available in her recent piece in The New York Times.
Check it out here.