Archive for the ‘books’ Category

Back to the comic book store

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

I've been collecting comics books since 1977 when I picked up a movie tie-in for Star Wars at my local Acme supermarket.  I collected random Superman, Hulk, Spiderman, and Captain Marvel (DC) issues that caught my eye (strangely this included a Captain Nazi issue), with no regard whatsoever for story ...

Webcomics Winners

Monday, March 16th, 2009

As a big fan of drawn serials, I've enjoyed the following over the past few years.  Not all are regular series, but I have them in my RSS reader to catch whenever the artists push something new out.  Below are RSS feed links for these sites.  Do you have any ...

The iPhone as an eBook reader

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

One of the things I was originally disappointed in with the iPhone was its inability to use the vast 16GB of space I had as a mounted disk, as I could previously with my iPod nano. I was still able to browse the web for PDFs, which was pretty cool, ...

Look for Books in RSS

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Do you find yourself reading a lot of books from certain categories? Check out Powell’s RSS Book lists. Subscribe to the feed you need and keep up with releases when they come out. Amazon offers the same in their Category feeds covering books and a whole lot more. ...