The Reading Room

I've only heard good things. - Aaron Hood from FreshFeed

Jason, 1072 pages - Brent - Loving Life

...ikten sonra .... - Ali Numan

wow - ddmulyadi from IM

"MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring. Owners of the Amazon Kindle, an ebook reader device, will be able to view well known works by writers such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy, as well as works by thousands of less famous authors. The library’s ebook publishing project, funded by Microsoft, the computer giant, is the latest move in the mounting online battle over the future of books. While some other services, such as Google Books, offer out-of-copyright works to be downloaded for free, users of the British Library service will be able to read from pages in the original books in the library’s collection. Most downloadable books on the Kindle are by contemporary authors because they are the most profitable for publishers. Many companies have not yet decided what to charge for older, out-of-copyright books. While the British Library books — which... more... - sofarsoShawn

Exactly probably the worst of the worst, the censorship, persecution, & EN MASSE book burnings of the Catholic church (best example of course the Copernican Affair) starting pretty much from it's creation & continuing to this day where they still maintain a "Banned Book LIst". In fact probably their favourite one is on my reading list that I proudly teach. (I'm going to hell) - sofarsoShawn

hala öyle çok özel dir ama bu senenin rengi - SezginSHOLA

İsmail Tufan değerli araştırmasında ''İndigo, Türkçesi ile "Hintli" kimin elindeyse, ona zenginlik getiriyordu. Bugün petrol neyse, 19. yüzyılın sonlarına kadar indigo oydu. Biz onu daha çok çivit adıyla tanırız. Bitkisel boyarmaddelerin en değerlisi ve en çok kullanılanı. Eskisi kadar olmasa bile, hâlâ önemini koruyor. Onun mavi renk tonunu tutturmak çok zor olduğu için, her zaman... more... - Ali Numan

"Time for serious reading appears to be getting more and more pinched – and that's a loss to more than literature" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Depends. Do I want something with full color and the ability to play video? If so, then Tablet. Or am I just an avid reader who wants to carry a library of books with him? Then I want a Kindle. I really think all these comparisons between Kindles and Tablets are apple-to-oranges. - Jason Huebel

Interesting, no one's raised the issue of e-ink or eye-friendliness :) I suppose that depends on whether one's priority is reading books or reading general (internet) content - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

:) - winckel

Clever no? - sofarsoShawn

:)) - Nasiim

[Waiting for a good answer] - Alex Scrivener

I got Robert Harris' Imperium, but i'd rather read a dry history than a fictionalization ;) Also "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves. Alternative suggestions are welcome! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Please take note. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Apparently I never misspelled those 10! Yay, good thing to welcoming the year 2010? lol - ŦJ工山乙

English is not my native language btw :) - ŦJ工山乙

It's a saucy good read :) - sofarsoShawn

"Never thought I'd say this, but I need you. I'm down at the pub, do you have time?" Mike asked into his cell phone. He smiled widely as his first glass of beer was put in front of him. He should cut down on the beer, really, but it tasted too damn good. "Time? For you I all the time in the world, baby. I'll be right over." The call broke and Mike had already changed his mind. Of all... more... - sofarsoShawn

Mummy? - WorldofHiglet

""Unfriend" and "Tweetups" are among the words that encapsulated the preoccupations and lifestyles of the past year, according to a study published on Wednesday." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

"One of the interesting trends of 2009 has been the gradual decline of RSS Readers as a way for people to keep up with news and niche topics. Many of us still use them, but less than we used to. I for one still maintain a Google Reader account, however I don't check it on a daily basis. I check Twitter for news and information multiple times a day, I monitor Twitter lists, and I read a number of blogs across a set of topics of most interest to me. Frankly, I'm more likely to use Google Reader to search for specific information nowadays, than to scan my subscribed feeds for their latest posts. So what's happened to RSS Readers. Do people still use them and is there still a viable market for them? In February 2007 we reported on the state of the RSS Reader market, based on statistics from Feedburner and Pheedo. At that point Google had 59% market share amongst web-based RSS Readers, followed by Bloglines with 33%, then Newsgator and Netvibes with 3% (note: this didn't count Newsgator's... more... - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

!!! @sofarsoShawn Good to know that I'm not the only person who has that kind of problem... #foodnottoeatonadate - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

K, for obvious reasons. - Kendra

V for Vengeance, & VictorGodot. Years ago I was in love with B for Beckett, Burroughs, Bukowski.... ;-) - diego morelli

"After much mulling and culling, we've come up with our list of the twenty best books of the decade. The list is weighted towards science fiction, but does have healthy doses of fantasy and horror. And a few surprises." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Up for WWZ :) - diego morelli

"Dan Brown's follow-up to The Da Vinci Code has sold more copies in its first 36 hours of UK release than any other adult hardback novel, say publishers." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Dan Brown writes the epitome of beach reading: mediocre writing, fun plots that keep you turning the pages. That said, if the paperback is out by next summer, I'll read it on the beach then. - Shannon Jiménez

Google Editions! Me Likey the Sound of this! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from Bookmarklet

"Google a déjà numérisé dix millions d'ouvrages dans le monde. En France, les éditions du Seuil ont engagé des poursuites contre le groupe de Mountain View pour contrefaçon. La chancelière allemande Angela Merkel s'y met elle aussi. Elle critique le projet de bibliothèque universelle numérique de Google, qui bafoue selon elle les droits d'auteur. Google a déjà numérisé dix millions d'ouvrages dans le monde. En France, les éditions du Seuil ont engagé des poursuites contre le groupe de Mountain View pour contrefaçon. Samedi, dans son podcast vidéo hebdomadaire, à trois jours de l'ouverture de la 61e Foire du livre de Francfort, qui s'ouvre mercredi, elle a souhaité une meilleure coopération internationale pour protéger les droits des créateurs et des auteurs. "Le gouvernement allemand a une position claire : les droits d'auteur doivent être protégés sur internet", a-t-elle dit. "C'est pourquoi nous rejetons la numérisation [des ouvrages de bibliothèques] si on ne tient pas compte de cette protection, comme le fait Google. Le gouvernement pèse de tout son poids pour défendre les écrivains en Allemagne". - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

Difficult for Google given Germany's political and economic clout within the EU and her cultural contribution to literature. Page, Brin & Schmidt have some thinking to do. - winckel

"L'Allemande d'origine roumaine Herta Müller s'est vue attribuer, jeudi 8 octobre, le prix Nobel de littérature 2009. Elle succède à JMG Le Clezio. Elle est récompensée pour avoir "avec la densité de la poésie et la franchise de la prose, dépeint l'univers des déshérités", a précisé l'Académie Nobel. C'est le troisième auteur de langue allemande en dix ans à être récompensé, après l'Allemand Günter Grass, en 1999 et l'autrichienne Elfried Jelinek, en 2004. Née le 17 août 1953 à Nitchidorf, dans la province de Banat en Roumanie, au sein de la minorité allemande des Souabes, Herta Müller a étudié la littérature allemande et roumaine entre 1973 et 1976 à Timisoara. Après quoi, elle devient traductrice dans une usine de machines industrielles. Proche dans sa jeunesse d'un groupe d'écrivains germanophones perçu par le régime de Nicolae Ceaucescu comme un "ferment d'opposition", elle est licenciée parce qu'elle avait refusé de collaborer pour la Securitate (les services secrets roumains)... more... - sofarsoShawn from Bookmarklet

//The Romanian-born German Herta Müller was awarded, Thursday, October 8, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. Elle succède à JMG Le Clezio. She succeeds JMG Le Clezio. Elle est récompensée pour avoir "avec la densité de la poésie et la franchise de la prose, dépeint l'univers des déshérités", a précisé l' Académie Nobel . She was honored for having "with the density of poetry and... more... - sofarsoShawn

I found my first journo to follow: Charlie Brooker: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile... writes abut tech and entertainment for the Guardian and was great on last's week's BBC Radio 1 Review Show: http://ff.im/8U14q. An example of one of his articles I enjoyed is here: http://ff.im/8TPA4 - Kol Tregaskes

For TV criticism, I like Alan Sepinwall. Politics, non-blogger columnists: Krugman, Taibbi. - Andrew C

Thanks to Sean McBride - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from Bookmarklet

Amazing images. - Sean McBride

Painful, and makes you sweaty? - Mark H

Fo' shizzle - Mitch