Visual Book List
I have started a visual book list. Looks quite nice, though the numbers of unfinished books worries me slightly. Will get round to writing little reviews at some point for each one.
Reading
Chain Reading
Chain Reading. It’s like a social booklist keeping thing. Kind of. You select the book you are reading, and have read, and will read. Recommend them to people. Maybe they will recommend some to you. Fairly interesting. Of course, some people had this idea nearly 12 months ago…
Google Print, Firefox, Google Portal
A day off work today. A few quick things before I get on. Maybe more later… Google Print is online. Had a quick play, looking for H.G. Wells’ The First Men on the Moon. Sadly that text is still under copyright so not all of it is available. Plenty of other classics are there in … Keep reading
Gutenberg formatting
Palimpsest’s Book Group is reading two H.G. Wells books at the moment. Being a skinflint, I thought I would download them from Project Gutenberg, a library of free books available in ext format, and sometimes HTML. The two novels are: The First Men on the Moon The Sleeper Awakes The trouble is that often the … Keep reading
Stating the Bleeding Obvious
As reported in The Guardian: I’ve never read a book, says Posh. I would have thought that should anyone have actually wasted their time considering this issue, they would have assumed that was the case anyway? Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty and Bookish probably wouldn’t have had quite the same ring to it. Despite penning a 528-page autobiography … Keep reading