The Kindle Oasis: A doorway into awfulness?
A short but fascinating YouTube video, brought to light on the Kboards, reviews the Amazon Kindle Oasis in glowing terms - at least regarding its hardware. There's just one tiny problem....
Review: ZealSound HDE-300 wooden earbuds
If you listen to audiobooks through earbuds, what would a good pair sound like for you? Here’s what they sound like for me.
About a week ago, another company reached out to...
E-book review: The Lost Fleet series by John G. Hemry (as Jack Campbell)
Here’s a review of a fun little series I got into back when Fictionwise was selling it in eReader format (well, they were selling most of it. Due to publisher confusion,...
Google Keep vs. Evernote
This evening, everyone in the tech world is talking about Google Keep, Google's answer to Evernote. So if I were reading, I'd want to know how it compares to Evernote. Fortunately,...
Zappos uses Mechanical Turk to proofread five million product reviews
I’ve talked about scan-induced typo problems in e-books before. For whatever reason, a lot of publishers don’t seem to have the manpower to devote to making sure their scanned e-books properly...
Book review: Dark Entries, by Robert Aickman, Faber & Faber
As noted previously, Faber & Faber is re-releasing some of Robert Aickman's short story collections for the centenary of his birth, and Dark Entries is one of the four volumes, and...
Book review: North American Lake Monsters, by Nathan Ballingrud, Small Beer Press
Nathan Ballingrud's North American Lake Monsters, from the feisty independent Small Beer Press, has quietly established itself as one of the high points in the new resurgence of American horror and...
Book review: The Unquiet House by Alison Littlewood, Jo Fletcher Books
Yorkshire-based UK horror and dark fiction writer Alison Littlewood has already produced some very fine horror novels, and this, her third, has been nominated for Best Novel in this year's Shirley...
Book review: The New Black, edited by Richard Thomas, Dark House Press
The New Black from leading indie publisher Dark House Press brings together 20 tales in the burgeoning genre of neo-noir, characterized by Dark House's materials as "a mixture of horror, crime,...
Moon+ Reader (app review)
Remember how I wrote that Whispersync was so important that I'd put up with a less feature-full app to have syncing between my Touch and Nexus 7? Oh, how things change.
After...