Tuesday, July 16, 2013

A Month Goes By

A month goes by, and the free ebooks just keep pouring in—a lot faster than i can read them!

My "new add to kindle" folder has 59 books in it at the moment (everything from Lonely Planet travel guides—for fiction research—to the third Cormac McCarthy novel in the All The Pretty Horses series and seven Iris Murdoch novels and three Simon Winchester non-fiction books and Advanced Programming In The UNIX Environment, 2nd edition).  What a motley collection of interests!  I'll get to them all, eventually.

Read more, that's the solution.

[  Plus, i almost forgot to mention:  i'm converting, for my own personal use, a regular book into an ebook—mainly because there's no ebook commercially available.  It's a pain, but worth it in the end.  Each page has to be scanned, and then i save each chapter as a PDF; from those PDFs, i'm copying the text into an MS Word file (using the built-in OCR now in Mac OS X); the Figures i add in from the individual page scans, as the quality is higher.  It's an interesting endeavor, and i consider the ebook conversion to be Fair Use since i own a copy of the book (and can't purchase an ebook version of it).  If MIT Press disagrees, i'm happy to see them in court.  ;-)  ]

Happy day, all.