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The Great Typo Hunt

Jeff Deck has a new book (co-written with Benjamin D. Herson) out that’s bound to delight those of us who chortled our way through Eats, Shoots & Leaves — The Great Typo Hunt, documenting his journey across America, fixing one typo at a time. [...]

Amazon’s new Kindles — $189 and $139 each

Amazon is stepping up its game, releasing new models of the already-popular Kindle and dropping the price in a big way. Are they poised to dominate this holiday season, or can Barnes & Noble, or the iPad, or even the Sony Reader, give them a run for their money? [...]

Time is on my side, yes it is…

It’s Wimbledon, and time is not on my side. But while we’re on the topic, read any good time travel stories lately? [...]

1B1T: One Book, One Twitter — reading American Gods

The Twitter-based crowdsourcing project, 1B1T (One Book, One Twitter), starts today with Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. [...]

Favorite love stories

What’s your favorite literary romance? [...]

Everything they said it would and wouldn’t be: iPad review

The iPad does exactly what I thought it would do, and does it nicely. I really think this is a device where your satisfaction with it will depend on whether you want to use it for what it does, or whether you’re disappointed it doesn’t do something else entirely. [...]

Why buy the cow when you can read the milk for free?

I can’t help but feel that publishing companies are going to have to come to grips with the new digital model whether they want to or not. [...]

What’s the best book you read in 2009?

Everyone’s got a list, but what’s the best book you read in 2009? [...]

Do I really need something else to carry?

Taking your library with you everywhere — it sounds exciting. But it also sounds like yet another thing to try to cram into my purse. I don’t want a whole different unit just for reading books. My mind doesn’t go in that direction anymore, not since I got an iPhone. [...]

Everybody’s got an e-book store these days, but who’s reading?

While the Google Books settlement meanders on in one courtroom after another, Google also announced this week that they will be opening an e-book store of their own in 2010. Google Editions will compete with Amazon’s Kindle store and Barnes & Noble’s e-book offerings. That puts the big three all in play — all [...]