Andrew de Quincey's livejournal - not only are iPads interesting to jailbreak, but also book readers like the Kindle (which has quite interesting hardware)
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Digital Literature: Neal Stephenson and the digital-social Mongols - Golem.de - with Neal Stephenson, the result could even be quite interesting. And if the app for iPhone and iPad is then approved, it would be even cooler.
Project Aon: Main / Home (browse) - what you might come across on the net. Official online versions of "hyperlinked" stories - namely the Lone Wolf books. Quite well-made "interactive" books. And as websites with links and a notepad as a notepad, quite fun to play through.
Give madness a chance!: I won't shop at Thalia anymore!!! - "nice" how Thalia behaves. The store has been suspicious to me for a long time anyway, because interesting bookstore, that's different. One reason why I buy more and more on the internet is the simply abysmally boring selection of "literature" in local large bookstores. Unfortunately, small bookstores in Münster limit themselves to children's literature, women's literature, esotericism, and religion - and I don't know why I listed esotericism and religion separately. In any case, not what I want to read. And with all non-German books, almost all bookstores here are so bad at ordering that Amazon becomes the urgent option out of the motivation "I want to get the book this year" in January. Maybe someday self-publishing and local printing will bring some movement to the situation - and hopefully also a chance for small, well-sorted, and competent specialty bookstores again. Because actually, browsing in a bookstore is fun when the sellers actually know what they're talking about and don't just sell in the bookstore because they earn too little in the perfumery. But that is probably more of a utopia for Münster.
The 25th Anniversary Edition of Little, Big, by John Crowley - only 4 months left until release! One of the most beautiful books in fantasy literature in a special edition for book lovers. With reproductions of graphics by Peter Milton as illustrations.
Amazon goes global with new Kindle - well, I think I'll rather continue to be a user of an e-reader with cracked DRM and without remote deletion of books. In some cases, offline is better than online.
E-Books: Publishers are blocking markets - this stinks. The next arrogant industry that doesn't give a damn about customer wishes. What use is the idiotic geographical limitation of the offer to me as a customer, if, for example, American authors are simply no longer available in the English original in Germany? Libri and Co. only sell the translations as eBooks.
Books on Board - another store that sells English literature as eBooks and also offers Epub. Even quite current books.
Welcome to Waterstones.com - their eBooks also work perfectly on the Sony Reader, and thus there is also a source with relatively current literature in English for it. Of course, DRMed.
Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google - ok, basically what Gutenberg already does, but hey, I'm not complaining if I have even more books to choose from!
Baen Books Science Fiction & Fantasy - another eBook dealer that doesn't have much DRM and offers books, for example, as HTML. Fictionwise has a wider selection, but Baen is specialized in science fiction and fantasy.
Calibre - free software for managing eBooks and synchronizing with the PRS-505. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Update: this thing is great! By far better than the included Sony software - and together with Adobe Digital Editions, you can easily buy your books from Thalia and transfer them to the device without any problems. Due to the DRM on books from regular sources, you need to use Adobe Digital Editions for reading (and probably for downloading as well), but otherwise you can fully use Calibre as a replacement for the somewhat cumbersome Sony software.
Sony Reader PRS-505 - LatheWiki - tons of links about the PRS-505, including how to patch the firmware yourself and links to programs with which you can manage the PRS-505 on systems other than Windows.
.epub eBooks Tutorial - how to produce ePub files with free software.
Feedbooks: Food for the mind - free eBooks in ePub format (can be used with the Sony Reader)
Fictionwise eBooks - and this is my favorite eBook dealer at the moment, delivers various formats and offers useful search functions also by format. Also there are the LRF files best suited for the Sony. Nice: there are also quite current titles and with their software you can also read the books on the iPhone. Unfortunately, many publishers are being difficult, so for example you can only get the books by Neal Stephenson in DRM-crippled formats, none of which are compatible with the Sony.
:: Munseys : A Bangsian Fantasy - and another site with tons of free eBooks - here you'll also find ePub and lrf formats (the latter often works better with the Sony than the ePub format, at least if it's not explicitly made for its small screen).
Robert A. Wilson passed away - read the Illuminatus trilogy again. Fnord.
Giving It Away - Cory Doctorow on Creative-Commons licensed eBooks.
3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop: Books: Luke Ahearn - just blogged to remind myself to get it later (be careful, Amazon link).
The Dark Side of Game Texturing: Books: David Franson - another book (again Amazon, sorry) about textures.
The Victorian Internet - Comparison of the telegraph network with today's Internet, including cultural impacts.
Foundations of Python Network Programming is a relatively new book about network programming with Python. It covers all possible aspects of network programming you can think of - quite impressive the first impression. I know most of the things already from somewhere, but so compact in one book it is still nice to read. Together with Dive Into Python I would see the two as the ideal pair to learn Python.
Helium - Haskell Learning System
Helium is a Haskell subset compiler specifically developed for teaching. It provides more detailed error messages and further analyzes sources to make these messages possible. However, it is really only a subset of Haskell - and since type classes are missing, a quite important part is missing. But to get a taste of functional programming, it is quite useful.
As textbooks, The Craft of Functional Programming and The Haskell School of Expression are recommended. I ordered both - my Haskell knowledge is more than primitive and hopelessly outdated (if that is even possible with a relatively young language like Haskell).
Found at Tim Pritlove: Lehmanns has a new releases blog with descriptions: New at Lehmanns. Nice. It's my favorite bookstore anyway (even though I mainly deal with their mail order department and occasionally with stands at trade fairs).
Friday 08.09.2000: Drips and drips - The three protocolists save their cynicism for the sequel - about the book Helmut Kohl, the power and the money from the Steidl publishing house. I'll probably have to get it.
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