Posted in Going Paperless, Kindle, Magazines, Newspapers on April 2, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m not sure how many people are interested in the topic of going paperless since it gets few hits on the stats page - but I’m enjoying exploring the idea. And I did get an email from Adam Kadleck suggesting I try out Zinio, an online magazine service. Since he works for the company he [...]
Posted in Going Paperless, Kindle, Magazines on March 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’m learning a lot about myself through this simple experiment of trying to go paperless. I buy probably 100 times as many words as I actually read - and that guess might even need to go as high as a 1,000 times. After buying my Kindle I decided to only purchase Kindle reading in a [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Going Paperless, Kindle, Magazines, Newspapers on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When my Time magazine renewal came in recently I decided not to renew. I had been paying about $29 a year and now it was $49, and I thought that too much. Then on Saturday I saw the new issue at my favorite bookstore and wanted to read it, but I passed on it thinking [...]
Posted in Magazines, Science Fiction on February 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My favorite SF/F magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction is getting a lot of attention this week because of their new blog. I’ve been reading this magazine since the mid 1960s and I eventually collected most of the issues back to the early 1950s. Sad to say I had to sell my collection during lean college [...]
Posted in Information, Least Popular, Magazines on June 10, 2007 | No Comments »
I often think about that movie Short Circuit with the little robot named Number Five who kept shouting, “More input, more input.” That’s how I feel about life. I wish I could process information as fast as Number Five.
This morning I cleaned off several chaotic stacks of mail from my desk. I have hundreds of [...]
Posted in Computers, Information, Magazines, Television, Web on March 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I sat down and read through the latest issue of Time Magazine. I am an information junky, but I don’t read magazines as much as I used too, not since the web. Reading the web is an exciting way to take in data – I can start with Slashdot and follow a link to [...]
