- The nook is finally in stock, though you may be better off waiting Apple and Spring Design out to see where prices land. LG is stepping into the ereader/tablet ring. Qualcomm’s Mirasol color display using butterfly wing tech is pretty cool looking. It’ll probably cost too much to be a game changer though. Also new to the game: The Notion Ink Adam uses a Pixel Qi display, whatever the hell that is. Here’s the Bookeen Orizon. [UPDATE: Evidently the iPad is intimidating enough to scare off Acer.]
- I’m not too excited about Apple bringing back FairPlay DRM. It’s no doubt related to their desire to control ebook prices, odd since iBooks isn’t even coming preloaded on the iPad.. I wonder what kind of kiddie-DRM Fisher Price will employto keep toddlers from pirating iXL software. Also in kid ereaders: the VTech Flip.
- It’s just public domain stuff, but it looks like this British library did a decent job with these classics. I like this EFF checklist for reader’s digital rights. Too bad publisher don’t much care about reading the data.
- I adore this vast collection of Lolita covers. The UK Ministry of Defense released all their UFO files to the public…cool. I’m currently reading a collection of post-apocalyptic fiction, so I found Slate’s guide to survival guides pretty cool. Conversely, I find the concept of BookByYou entirely f*@#ing stupid. And for a video, I’m sick of the snow; I’d buy one of these if it actually worked:
and this is just rad:
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Swartz
So after hearing all the hype, I bit the bullet and payed $9.99 to download Eucalyptus. And after reading through a book on it, I have to admit it’s worth the relatively steep price. If only you could import books, rather than be limited to Project Gutenberg’s (admittedly vast) library, it’d be the best reader app available for the iPhone.
I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks recently. They oprovide a great way to multitask (at work, the gym, driving) while plowing through some new books. Paying hardcover prices on iTunes for audiobooks seems a little rediculous to me, especially seeeing how more or less useless audiobooks are once you’ve finished them. That is, if its not a book you plan to re-enjoy soon, there’s little it can do besides waste space. Revisiting sections and searching for quotesor passages is more cumbersome than it is worth.
Project Gutenberg is one of the most aptly titled programs ever. Gutenberg, famously, invented 
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