At least 40 percent of TeleBlog readers live outside the United States, and many of our U.S. fans are frequent international flyers, not just frequent readers.
Beyond Paul Biba’s love of e-books, then, his creds as a globetrotter should enrich the TeleBlog in highly relevant ways
45+ countries
For the past 40 years, our newest contributor has been a corporate lawyer with a specialty in international transactions.
In that regard, Paul has visited over 45 countries, and long plane flights got him interested in e-books and their ability to help him travel with a minimal amount of baggage. He started with computer gadgetry in the days when using a Radio Shack TRS-80 and an acoustic cup modem at 300 baud was pretty exciting stuff. Currently he is House Counsel for a GPS software company in Princeton, NJ.
Paul’s e-reading history
Paul began reading e-books on a HP Jornada Pocket PC and has since used a variety of Pocket PCs, smartphones and Nokia 770 and 800 internet tablets, and he is now experimenting with a Sony Reader and hoping for an e-book reader for the iPhone. He has 281 e-books in his library at Fictionwise, plus a fair number at eReader and Mobipocket. Paul is also iPhone editor for the Palm Addict blog and a moderator at the GPSPassion website, as well as a name familiar to MobileRead readers.
Everywhere he travels virtually, he goes out of his way to help newbies, and we hope he won’t shy away from writing on topics of special interest to newcomers.
Awesome e-bookshelf in quality, not just quantity
On top of everything else, Paul was the lead interviewee of an upbeat but realistic New York Times article on e-books. “The virtual bookshelf in his pocket,” reported Peter Wayner, “currently has science fiction like Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold, all of the novels of Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey and the September issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.”
