Once you’ve made the leap and you’re reading e-books, it doesn’t take long to reach a point where you simply don’t like reading paper anymore. It’s at this point in time you can start systematically moving yourself to 100% paperless. There are lots of advantages to making the transition: 1. You’ll have all your books, […]
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Has it been a while since you were really bitten, hog-tied and spell-bound by a book? Do most books you read these days seem okay, but not super-duper fantastic the way they used to be even five years ago? I can help you change that. We’re Too Busy These days. I grew up in Australia,
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(a) Get your mind out of the gutter! 😉 (b) If you would like to enjoy your reading more, read on. There is a tool out there that is currently enjoying a revival in many businesses and industries. It is the simple checklist. Dr. Atul Gawande wrote the book, The Checklist Manifesto, after he incorporated checklists into
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The boxed set of The Indigo Reports was released first thing this morning, and everyone who pre-ordered should have their copies by now. Enjoy the read! For those of you who were waiting for the print edition, I’m afraid it will be a few days longer before I can upload that. I was a victim
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If you’ve been following my blog posts for a while, it is probably not a big shock to you if I tell you that I am subscribed to several productivity blogs. One of them, Zen Habits, recently put up a post about deliberately scheduling reading time into your day. If you’ve never deliberately schedule something
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A few weeks ago, I let everyone know about BookFunnel’s Library feature (more details here if you don’t know what I’m referring to). I got a ton of email back from readers who really loved the feature and were super glad to hear about it. But I also got an email from a reader who
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For various reasons, including time crunches, I won’t be adding to the posts here on the site for a while. I will continue to send out emails to everyone on my email list, which has always been the way to receive any news about new releases, etc., soonest and most reliably. So if you happen
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I’ve had the English translation of Liu Cixin’s science fiction novel, The Three Body Problem, sitting in my TBR pile for a couple of years. It won the Hugo. I figured that made it a must-read. But I never cracked it open. Why? Because I kept hearing rumours: As much as I love Asimov, his
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Short and quick, today. One of Isaac Asimov’s classic and most well-known short stories is “The Last Question,” which can be found in multiple anthologies, including Robot Dreams and Nine Tomorrows, two collections of Asimov’s. If you like listening to audio, you can hear this story read by Leonard Nimoy. 🙂 I found a recording
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The first really effective dystopian setting I saw in movies was Ridley Scott’s 1982 Bladerunner, which both made me a fan of anything Ridley Scott made (and I am still a diehard fan), and made me aware that there was no guarantee that humanity’s actual future would be rosy, the way the Star Trek franchise
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