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Amazon Kindle 3G Battery Life

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While book blogs contain plenty of reports of readers getting up to a month of battery life out of the Kindle 3G, my experience is that the usage is about a week – less if you are reading a lot.…

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Why Publishers Must Enable the Loan feature on Kindle Editions

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Publishers that do not enable the loan feature on their Kindle books risk alienating their readers who cannot understand why they are penalised on price and leandability when they purchase digital rather than print products. Paperbacks and hardbacks have always been shared. Why should digital be different?

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Snowdrops by A D Miller

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Book blogs are buzzing with chat about the Man Booker prize for fiction and there has been quite a bit of controversy about the shortlisted novels. I can’t help being drawn in by the discussion with the result that I…

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Booker chat 2011 – Which ones will you read?

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What do you make of the controversy about the Man Booker shortlist this year? Book bloggers like myself had plenty to discuss as the debate about readability versus literary quality rages on. I have some sympathy for the judges having…

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World Book Day, 3 March 2011

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Dublin has recently become a UNESCO City of Literature and where better to celebrate World Book Day on March 3rd? World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over…

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Mad Men Series 1-3 DVD

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Mad Men airs around midnight on a school night on this side of the world and as I’m usually tucked up in bed way before that it’s only in the last couple of weeks that I have finally discovered what…

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