Tips, tricks and hacks for readers, to make your reading life easier. Plus news and gossip.
If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, it is probably not a big shock to you if I tell you that I am subscribed to several productivity blogs. One of them, Zen Habits, recently put up a post about deliberately scheduling reading time into your day. If you’ve never deliberately schedule something that
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On Tuesday, the first official week of the new Kiss Across Time Reading Group gets underway. For the next few months, we will be reading the next book in the Kiss Across Time series every two weeks, leading up to the release of the brand new Book 8, Kiss Across Tomorrow, in November. (If you’re
If you love stories, then finding more time to appreciate them is a good thing. Stories have been around for as long as man has walked upright. They began as spoken tales, that taught us how to survive. So Paleo Bob’s story around the campfire, “This time my mate was eaten by a tiger and
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I’ve been sharply reminded this week of the constant tension that thrums between creatives and consumers – or, to be blunt—the writer and the reader. You. (For this post, “consumer” is not merely someone who buys products. I use the word to refer to anyone who consumes what creatives produce. Consumers are viewers and listeners,
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I thought I’d try something a bit different for a bit. There’s quite a few writers I know who write “in public” — they post what they produce on their blogs, for readers to react to. Wattpad is the grand collective of this idea. For writers who are unsure of their craft, or for the
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Further to my post about sideloading, I discovered that Teleread have a three part series on the various ways you can sideload to your Kindle — including why you would even want to. This is a thorough exploration of all the processes, and as it was only posted in April 2016, you can be fairly
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A Geek Girl’s Guide to… is an ongoing series about becoming more technically savvy, so you can maximize your ereading pleasure. Links to back-posts are at the end of this post. – t. ___ Sideloading Books What exactly is sideloading? A lot of readers get very confused by this term. It’s a made up word
A Geek Girl’s Guide to… is an ongoing series about becoming more technically savvy, so you can maximize your ereading pleasure. Links to back-posts are at the end of this post. – t. ___ Must you pick a format? I was having a discussion with readers the other day about which formats to use where.
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Part 7: Big, Sick-Making Inboxes. This post is part of Inbox Sanity, A Geek Girl’s Guide series. Part 1: Who Gives A Crap? Part 2: Empty Inbox, Always. Part 3: Working the System. Part 4: Filtering I. Part 5: Filtering II. Part 6: Multiple Email Addresses. Part 7: Big, Sick-Making Inboxes. _______________ BIG, giant, sick-making
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Part 6: Multiple Email Address. This post is part of Inbox Sanity, A Geek Girl’s Guide series. Part 1: Who Gives A Crap? Part 2: Empty Inbox, Always. Part 3: Working the System. Part 4: Filtering I. Part 5: Filtering II. Part 6: Multiple Email Addresses. Part 7: Big, Sick-Making Inboxes. _______________ One of the
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