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Unlike some, I don’t think “blind faith” is redundant (although it was one hell of a short-lived “supergroup”). Granted, faith necessarily implies belief without the need for evidence. But “blind” suggests the faith exists without contemplation or introspection and perhaps even through willful ignorance. If the blindness is exposed to questioning, thought or analysis, it [...]            Tim April 8th, 2013 | Tags: Book Reviews, e-books, fiction, Religion | Category: Book Reviews | Leave a comment |  Print This Post |  Email This PostHere’s an interesting question. If you had 300 books sitting in your “to read” stack would you be out buying more? As something I read last week observed, most sane people would say no — but that seems to go out the window with e-readers. I’m a case in point. I have nearly 350 books [...] Tim March 19th, 2013 | Tags: e-books, e-readers, Kindle, Nook, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIt is rather stunning. Terry Deary is a children’s author whose books were the seventh most borrowed from British libraries last year. Yet his view of libraries is that “no one has an entitlement to read a book for free, at the expense of the author, the publisher and the … tax payer.” According to [...] Tim February 14th, 2013 | Tags: Books, children, e-books, libraries, literacy, reading | Category: Libraries | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIt was an amazing year for reading, which I attribute not only to our “empty nest” but that I stayed with my nonresolution to read what I want when I wanted. I read only 19 review copies this year, compared to 36 last year. Ultimately, I read far more books this year than ever before. [...] Tim January 2nd, 2013 | Tags: Books, e-books, reading | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostIn its latest look at libraries in the digital age, the Pew Internet Project last week released a report on libraries, library users and e-books. The study confirms some of what I’ve been thinking about e-books lately and the continuing technological draw of instant gratification. Perhaps the lead item in the study was that 58% [...] Tim June 25th, 2012 | Tags: e-books, Kindle, libraries, Nook | Category: A Reading Life | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostI have far, far, far too many books on my TBR shelves. When I last looked, I had about 100 books on my Nook Color (although a number of them are public domain editions of classics that I intend to read “some day”). So what did I do today? I bit on an offer to [...] Tim March 29th, 2012 | Tags: e-books, e-readers | Category: A Reading Life | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostA survey conducted by an advertising firm at the end of last year seeks to give us a picture of book buying in America. I can’t vouch for the statistical validity of the internet-based survey, which had 2,200 respondents, It claims to have a 1.5 percent margin of error. So what did the survey results [...] Tim January 29th, 2012 | Tags: Books, e-books, reading | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostHow popular have e-books and ebook readers and apps become? Consider this: ebook checkouts from the Siouxland Libraries increased 201 percent over the course of 2011. Meanwhile, the number of electronic materials went up 139 percent from 2010 to 2011. The figures are rather stunning. Last January, the first complete month of use by those [...] Tim January 23rd, 2012 | Tags: e-books, libraries, technology | Category: Libraries | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWant to know what happens when I combine a lengthy vacation with our “empty nest”? It means I read more books than in any year since I started keeping track in 1976. This year I read 147 books, compared to the prior record of 127 last year. And although the number may be somewhat squishy, [...] Tim January 2nd, 2012 | Tags: Books, e-books, reading | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostWhen I see documentaries or read books about the 1960s, I occasionally can’t help but ponder whether the radicals of the period, such as Abbie Hoffman or Bernadine Dohrn, ever wondered what America would be like today had the change they advocated come to pass. They face the problem all of us do — no [...] Tim September 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Book Reviews, e-books, fiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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