Do you bring your iPad into the kitchen to follow recipes? Or maybe you bring it out to the garage and fix stuff? My manager asked me how I use my iPad and I could only answer, “Well, I like to read PDFs and write notes in the margins. That’s my primary use.” And then …
You know how you can write notes in an Kindle book? That seems to be Amazon’s propietary system for recording notes. Especially since Amazon doesn’t even use ePub files in the first place (they use mobi files). It would be cool if there was a way to publish a Kindle book with notes already in …
I really want the experience of reading a Kindle book with someone else. If there is anyone reading a book on a Kindle, let me know I would like to read the book with you. It would be fun to share notes and highlights through the progress of reading the book. Right now the tools …
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An Art Institute intern, Steve Schmitt, wrote a nice blog post about one of his favorite artworks in the Roy Lichentstein show now showing at the Art Insitute of Chicago. A lot has changed since the 1960s; within my Google calendar, all of the words look exactly the same. I still can tell through the subject …
I’ve started keeping track of how adding highlights to a Kindle book moves it up the “most highlighted book” list on Amazon. Right now I have a book that has 30 highlights. It’s ranked 11,701 on the list. I will add highlights and see how it moves up the list. (The book is “John 12-21 …
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I like writing comments right onto the screen of a webpage. This is the future of the internet. I want a browser where i can draw right onto the screen, and then take a screenshot and post it to any social media site. Right now it takes many leaps to write on a webpage. Screenshot …
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What could the bookstore of the future look like? Bethanne Patrick, Executive Editor of Book Riot, asked this question on her blog post, “The Bookstore of the Future, Installment One: What Would Don Draper Handsell?” (hat-tip to @dbsalk for tweeting a link to this post.) I’d love to see specific niche-by-topic bookstores. Like a bookstore …
Imagine a Kindle where you can easily write notes in the margins of a book, share those notes with friends. Or even share those notes with anyone in the world that will read that book. Imagine being able to read a book where you can activate an option to show all the notes from people …