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April 1, 2010
 

Interesting point about iPad's weight and book-reading

I also found iBooks, Apple's book reader and store, easy to use, and read a couple of books on it. I consider the larger color screen superior to the Kindle's, and encountered no eye strain. But the iPad is much heavier than the Kindle and most people will need two hands to use it. The iBooks app also lacks any way to enter notes, and Apple's catalog at launch will only be about 60,000 books versus more than 400,000 for Kindle.

via online.wsj.com

Quote above is from Walt Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal, emphasis added.

Reading in bed is a reason I like softcover books (and ebooks on my iPhone), so you don't need two hands to hold a book. It would be a shame if I couldn't do that with the iPad.

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February 12, 2010
 

Want "Learning Rails" updated for Rails 2.3.5? Buy the live edition

Learning Rails, Live Edition, Cover

The Live Edition of Learning Rails starts with an update of the book from Rails 2.1.1 to Rails 2.3.5. Code that changed over the past year or so has been cleaned up, as have errata that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

O'Reilly Live Edition books give you access to updates to topics in between editions of a book.

via oreilly.com

Simon and I are busy updating the book for the upcoming Rails 3.0, but this Live Edition brings it up to date with the current release of Rails. We think "Learning Rails" is the best way to get started with Rails, and a bunch of happy Amazon reviewers seem to agree!

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July 24, 2009
 

iRex digital reader, as used by author Karl Schroeder

Print any document directly to your iRex Digital Reader. Microsoft Office documents, e-mails and Adobe PDF documents, can be directly printed into a readable format on your iRex Digital Reader, allowing you the convenience to always have all your paperwork at hand.

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via irextechnologies.com

Karl Schroeder gave a keynote at OSCON this morning, and used this reader for his notes.

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