Have you ever read a full book on your notebook? I’ve read many. A notebook certainly isn’t the best device for reading an eBook but will certainly do in a pinch. For many years I’d used a Palm IIIc or a Dell Axim X3 for reading eBooks. I was quite happy with these devices as book readers, apart from the fact that even with minimum brightness they sometimes still seemed too bright in a dark room. They, unfortunately, were getting old and began in one way or another to fail. I was looking into getting an iPhone, or an iPod Touch, but hadn’t made my mind to do so yet when both...

An article on Ars Technica called to my attention that Sony is making available books which have been scanned into PDF by Google, on its online store. These books have already been available directly from Google, but it seems that they get special formatting for the Sony Reader if downloaded from the store. Most of these books are texts from before 1920 and while some might be considered classics, others are just old and outdated. While we should welcome the preservation and availablity of all literary work, it is not clear if this will have any significant impact on the perceived value of the Sony...

I’ve recently read Off Armageddon Reef, David Weber’s most recent title and the first in a new series which introduces an entirely new universe. I have read almost all books in Weber’s Honor Harrington series and have generally liked all of them and when I stumbled upon a reference to this book I got drawn in by its description. Off Armageddon Reef is a book set in a distant future when humanity has been almost totally annihilated by a xenophobic race: the Gbaba. One planet remains and in order to escape destruction at the hands of the Gbaba, humans had to abandon all technology...

Please don’t let the impressive title for this blog give you a wrong idea. This blog is not going to stuffy or overly formal. In fact, all I’ll be writing here are my personal opinions about Books, eBooks and eBook reading devices. I’ll comment, also, on online stores and book-related services and on my personal experience in using them. It is not my intention to speak ill about any book, author or store so I’ll be focusing on titles and authors I’ve liked, when commenting on the books. When commenting book related products such as reader devices and software and...