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The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s most definitive work on the language, will never be printed because of the impact of the internet on book sales. VISIT LINK: Oxford English Dictionary will not be printed again (tags: books dictionary ebooks internet language publishing trends oed oxford …)
The Visual Miscellaneum – Information Is Beautiful The book of David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer. "A passion of mine is for visualizing information – facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions – all with the minimum of words. I’m interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through [...]
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get [...]
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others The Times published an article explaining that the Orwell books were unauthorized editions that Amazon removed from its Kindle store. However, Amazon said it would not automatically remove purchased copies of Kindle books if a similar situation arose in the future. (tags: web internet business apple news computer [...]
Best introductory books (from Ask MetaFilter) Based on the great Ask MetaFilter thread from 2007: What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?. The whole thing’s worth a read but a while back I decided to go through, give it a squeeze, and extract the juicy [...]
Writing softwares (for Mac and Windows) A list of links to good writing and scriptwriting softwares for Mac and Windows. (tags: software tools free mac osx freeware reference apps application macosx productivity applications resources windows books macintosh computer writing app links lists literature …)
The Four Hour Work Week Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan—there is no need to wait and every reason not to. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, high-end world travel, monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is [...]
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Stanza Electronic book reader with powerful library organization features. Font sizes and colors, portrait mode or landscape, justification, line spacing, and hyphenation can be customized. (tags: software tools mac tool osx freeware apple apps MacOSX application productivity books windows ipod iphone tech reading app book converter amazon ipodtouch touch pdf reader ereader kindle stanza ebooks [...]
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Uncle Bobby's Wedding "But if the library is doing its job, there are lots of books in our collection that people won't agree with; there are certainly many that I object to. Library collections don't imply endorsement; they imply access to the many different ideas of our culture, which is precisely our purpose in public [...]
Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture at Gresham College. Four professors discuss the origins of science fiction, its overlap with other genres and its developments over more than a century. (tags: 300 books cyberpunk fiction literature neal_stephenson nealstephenson sci-fi science [...]