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So I self-published the Kindle Fan Guide yesterday, and posted a note to the main Amazon.com Kindle forum about it. I’ve received eleven forum replies and two emails so far, with ideas and full-scale copyediting. I’m almost ready for a second edition, and it’s not even twenty-four hours since I published the thing.

Just finished assembling and posting The Kindle Fan Guide, a compilation of tips and information on using the Amazon Kindle. After receiving one a week ago, I assembled this book in great excitement. What amazes me is that I’m able to offer it in print form, as a PDF, and in ebook form. They were […]

J.B. Philips: Modern man has a lust for full explanation and habitually considers himself in no way morally bound unless he is in full possession of all the facts.

Well, it’s been a long week. My computer’s hard disk died last Monday, so I’ve been unable to update this blog. Not quite true. I could have updated it, but didn’t feel like editing the files directly on the website. Wouldn’t have updated the newsfeed anyway. This was the last of several misfortunes: my heat […]

No outdoor adventure this week. Instead, an inner adventure. I’m two days into The Five-Day Course in Thinking, a book Edward De Bono wrote forty years ago. Isaac Asimov wrote the Foreword. It’s a malnourished paperback, barely a hundred pages long. The edge of the pages are that odd dusty Martian red that seemed so […]