I’ve read many reviews of Amazon’s new version of its Kindle eBook reader. It seems to be a general consensus that the new version is a huge improvement over the previous one. Being based in Rio de Janeiro I cannot get a Kindle 2, as they are not sold overseas, and the import tax would really kill its attractiveness. The pictures I’ve seen to substantiate what the reviews indicate: the new Kindle looks much better than the previous one. Image source: Amazon.com Amazon seems to be onde right track with the Kindle, as Sony seems to be going in a general good direction with its own...

Kevin J. Anderson has done a remarkable job in creating this Saga which is composed of as many books as there are suns in its name. It is a single, continuous story that picks up in one book just where the previous one had ended, taking the reader on a long ride. The characters of the novels are well crafted and at no time do you have the feeling that you are reading something which is not relevant to the story line, regardless of whether the passage is about a little girl in an out-of-the-way colony planet or the King of multi-planetary confederation. Everything is weaved into a pattern and...

This book is a sequel to Off Armageddon Reef and a very good one at that.  When I finished reading Off Armageddon Reef I was eager to find out how the story would continue.  Not only had I liked the characters but the whole situation in which we humanity finds itself in its new home in the planet Safehold is intriguing. By Schism Rent Asunder takes us through the continued, and unstoppable, events that were triggered by the events in the previous book.  As with with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder is the kind of book which you will not want to put down.  In this book David Weber seems...

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...