So it’s Book Plug Friday time (past time again, it’s Saturday, dammit! And this is Charlie btw. Sarah is Having connectivity problems. And if Peyton Manning HAD blocking like my Recent writer’s block, I would not have any needed neck surgery and the Broncos would be undefeated going into the Superbowl.)
(And insert some deflated ball jokes here, I got nothing.)
In any case, I ‘ve been thinking about the e-Book Revolution. You all Realize it’s only a few years old, right? I wrote a review of the first Kindle acerca only 6 years ago. And while we’ve had several generations of Kindles, We have not HAD what is real any progress in the capabilities of e-readers and Associated devices.
Well, it’s time. At this point, I’ve got Thousands of Kindle books in my library, and I Doubt I’ve got the biggest library. But when i look at my library on my Kindle, I’ve got three choices: I can list them what I read según Most Recently On That device , I can list them in alphabetical order by title, and I can list them in alphabetical order by author.
Then I can scroll-through Those lists. Good luck if I’m looking for books by Roger Zelazny – I can scroll for a long long time to get to the bottom of a long listing 3000 bool
I think it’s time for the next generation of current. thought about e-books and What Should be done.
To start with, we need better ways to manage lots our own collections. This ought to be easy: Amazon Already have keywords, reviews, and ISBNs as well as Their own numbers – not to mention the collaborative filtering algorithms That let them cluster books So They can make suggestions. . And if They Do not store Already Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal numbers for the books, I’m sure there are APIs That someone can let them access
Second, the e-book standards – and e -Book publishers – need to Provide Better typography. Computer and math books in particular, suffer, with math Being just about the worst – Often the only way to put complicated math into an ebook is by making an image of it. They mostly manage all right With European languages - I’ve got books in German and French and Spanish That look perfectly reasonable, but the Chinese and Sanskrit does not make it at all. (My Esperanto books I listed are just the fannish usual incompetence, Esperanto does not use any characters French does not have.)
Aside: It’s not just the readers, though. Baen Books (sorry, Toni) here are my special annoyance. For some reason, Most Baen books are set-up in Such a Way That They Have a leeeetle tiny typeface on the Kindle. I just randomly picked Beyond This Horizon . At scale 7 it’s still uncomfortably small; MOST every other book at scale 7 100 words can barely fit on the screen. . C’mon, folks, esta was all Worked out by Ben Franklin’s time
This leads to a third point: better e-book apps. It’s not Instantly obvious to the reader, but all e-book apps are Basically the rendering part of a web browser: all the ebook standards are based on storing HTML With Some metadata , like a table of contents.
The fourth thing to eat, I think, is to be reliable to access all your notes in one collection. When I’m researching something, I end up resorting to handwritten notes, Because while I can make notes in the book, I can not remember Which book I made the notes in.
So that’s my wish list . What’s yours?
Troll-magic
By JM Ney-Grimm
North-land spellcasters wield excessive power WHO transform into trolls. – Potent, twisted, and hungry for dominance
Prince Kellor, cursed by a troll witch to live as a north-bear, wrestles With The Challenges of a beast’s form. I Sees His childhood friend Elle as the key to His escape.
But charming Elle will be no easy task. That delicate Traversing Between adolescence and adulthood passage, she Struggles to balance family loyalty Against Her passion for music.
In This epic adventure across a stunning landscape, from cool pine forests to an icy pinnacle of basalt actual so it leaves you shivering, Elle and Kellor must summon essential wisdom and grit to prevail Against a troll-witch’s malice in a lethal battle of wills.
Fighting Against a pal nightmare beside fighting for a dream.
Perilous Chance
By JM Ney-Grimm
If only Mama Were well. If only Papa were. . . not like this.
Clary needs a miracle, but wonders rarely step forth to solve life’s problems. While her mother wearily lies abed and her papa Spends the day. . . elsewhere, Clary Struggles to look after her younger sister and Their baby brother. And longs for more than making do. If only.
Then, one spring morning, Clary and Elspeth visit the old bramble-grown quarry to pick wild cabbage leaves. Hidden Within the rock’s cleft, Clary’s miracle awaits. But esta miracle razor-sharp talons sports, world-shaking power, ravenous hunger, and a troll-witch to guard ITS sleep. When it cracks the egg, Clary will survive?
Something wondrous This Way eat!
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