One of the items on my Christmas wish list for last year was an Amazon Kindle. I still don’t have one, and probably for the better because they’ve come out with a larger format version in the Kindle DX. Now there’s another player in the market with Barnes & Noble releasing their eBook reader, the Nook.

The images above are not to scale of each other, but the center image is the Kindle DX which you can tell is much larger, just using the scale of the person’s hands (that is unless that got some tiny person to use as …read more

I continue to learn something new on a regular basis. My experience has been to grab a book on a topic and try to read through it as much as possible. That’s not always successful because the challenge with computer books is they’re usually huge and not too easy to carry around with you and pull-out whenever you’ve got a couple of minutes.

When I was first learning and teaching myself HTML, I always enjoyed the way information was presented in the "Bible" series from Wiley. I felt the way the book was organized and gave the reader a nice overview …read more

If there’s one technology device that I would love to receive as a gift from someone this Father’s Day it would be the new Kindle DX from Amazon.com. I’m not sure exactly what it is about the device, but I absolutely love it and I haven’t even played with one with my own hands yet.

If I had a spare $500 laying around, this would probably be one of the first things I’d purchase myself. I love reading, I just don’t do enough of it. I read a lot of stuff on my phone when I’m out and about with dead …read more

A wiseguy once said that you can judge a man by the applications he keeps on his computer. One such app I’ve come to include in my list of essentials is Delicious Library, which is nothing more than a virtual catalogue of my book, music, DVD and game collection.
What makes Delicious Library an engaging affair is the actual building of your vast library of books and showing it off to your friends. The library allows for tracking of books that you lent out indicating who borrowed it and when it becomes overdue.
Perhaps the best feature of Delicious Library is its …read more