Tips, tricks and hacks for readers, to make your reading life easier. Plus news and gossip.
I tripped over this site a few weeks ago and bookmarked it as something to check out when I had time. Hollow laugh. So, even though I haven’t yet looked into the site, or assessed the quality of the fiction they offer, I thought I would draw your attention to it anyway. Serial Box offers […]
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I thought the passing of Carrie Fisher was really the topper of the year, but no — her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed the very next day. Well before Carrie Fisher’s death, people were already saying what a horrible year 2016 had been for unexpected deaths of celebrities, unexpected political outcomes, depressed sales, and much more. My
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There are many images of trees in snow out there, but I particularly like this one because it was taken in my home province of Alberta. For those of you celebrating Christmas, I offer yuletide greetings. For everyone else taking a very welcome break from work, enjoy! If you’re in a country that doesn’t recognize
At least a couple of years ago, a reader — let’s call her Sue — contacted me and asked in fairly demanding tones why I didn’t offer all my books as audiobooks. I politely replied that it was an expensive undertaking for indie authors, although producing audiobooks was on my list of things to do. (It
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Amazon is always innovating, but this one left me a little wide-eyed. If they franchise this, it will revolutionize shopping in brick and mortar stores. It would make shopping for books very dangerous indeed. (It’s already high risk — that one-click button is a freaking disaster!) (…and I would have put the cake back.)
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) Get your mind out of the gutter. (b) If you would like to enjoy your reading more, read on. There is a tool out there that is currently enjoying a revival in many businesses and industries. It is the simple checklist. Dr. Atul Gawande wrote the book, The Checklist Manifesto, after he incorporated checklists
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I had no idea I was going to be out for the count this long. I haven’t been sick all this time (thank heavens!) – but things slid while I was out and it took a while to catch up. Part of the squeeze to catch up came because right now I’m in the middle