I am excited to launch OccuPoetry today with new poetry by Carrie Osborne of Oakland, CA. A collaboration with my good friend Katy Ryan, OccuPoetry is a poetry project, publishing art in support…

Tomorrow is Corduroy Day, 11/11. But not just any old Corduroy Day, which comes once each November; tomorrow’s date marks one that comes only once ever 100 years. 11/11/11 Learn more with Bill…

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With 75 responses so far, here’s a peak at the results of the survey. If you have not yet voiced your opinion on whether ereaders are ready for academic use, please take the survey. Note: if…

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In the commercial world of book sales, ereaders have surged into the spotlight over the last few years. Book retailers Amazon and Barnes and Noble each release new models of their dedicated ebook…

From The Avid Reader (local Davis bookshop) From Amazon From Borders Two friends have recently published books that feed right into (pun intended) the de rigueur locavore food craze sweeping the…

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instapaper:

Ephemera will comfortably synchronize your ebook reader with Instapaper.com via USB. It works with the Amazon Kindle, Sony readers and pretty much any device capable of reading HTML, Mobipocket or EPUB files, which should cover quite a bit of ground.

It will fetch your news as single articles or in Instapaper’s premade bundles (Mobipocket & EPUB). Personally, I prefer the former. I can read an article, delete it on my reader, and during the next sync it’ll be archived on Instapaper.com.

Being the lazy guy, I’ve also implemented a feature I call “Plug, Sync & Go”: If you want it to, Ephemera will automatically start up, sync, and then unmount your reader when it detects the USB connection. My idea was that you’d configure the app once, and then just have it work — by simply connecting your reader.

Great idea: a Mac app to automatically synchronize Instapaper’s downloads to USB-mounted e-readers. I especially like the synchronization of deleted articles to your Instapaper Archive page.

Slow Man, by J. M. Coetzee

So instead of a small number of really impressive “monuments” such as those that survive from the disdained historical past, our century will leave, across the planet, a sprinkling of almost…

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