Charlie Stross reviews the iPad
The iPad came out in the United Kingdom this weekend, and there are a number of new reviews of it making the rounds now. One of those reviews in particular...
Review: ‘For the Win’ by Cory Doctorow
Yesterday, I reviewed Cory Doctorow’s novella “Anda’s Game”, about gold-farming and labor unions in MMOs. Today I’m going to look at Doctorow’s latest young-adult novel, For the Win, that continues...
Review: ‘Anda’s Game’ by Cory Doctorow
A few days ago, I mentioned that Cory Doctorow’s new young-adult novel For the Win was now available as a free e-book. Since then, I have actually read it, and...
iPhone/iPad e-book app review: iSilo
If you’re wondering whether the iSilo reader (v5.17) for the iPhone and iPad is worth the hefty $9.99 cost, the answer depends on whether you’re within its target audience. If...
Ebert: ‘Golden age’ of film criticism, thanks to Internet
Roger Ebert has an essay on his blog talking about how the Internet has produced a new “golden age” of movie criticism. There are more film critics now, across the...
iPad/iPhone e-book app review: Stanza
I’ve already looked at the other two of the original “big three” iPhone e-book apps. The third of these apps is Stanza, the EPUB reader from Lexcycle. Stanza has a...
Cheap Reads: Legacy of the Aldenata series by John Ringo
One of the great boons to cheap reading matter are the Baen freebie CDs. These promotional CDs are bound into first-edition first-printing hardcovers of select Baen books, or given out...
iPhone/iPad e-book app review: BookShelf
The last few e-readers I’ve reviewed have been corporate-, or at least company-created—crafted by teams of developers, with a very smooth and polished look to them and, with the exception of...
iPhone/iPad e-book app review: iBooks
And now it’s time to review an e-book app that does not have “Reader” in the name. Time to look at the big kahuna of iPad e-book readers, the one...
iPad Review: Quirks and oddities
As I’ve been using the iPad, I have noticed a number of little things about it that struck me as interesting or strange. Here are some of those things. What...