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I'm currently reading the [e]book We the Media by Dan Gillmor. Great book - I heartily recommend it. A little depressing reading about all those widely read bloggers -- when I check the access logs for this site, anyway. If this site were to ever get extremely busy [snicker], I know I'd long for the days when nobody was reading it. So... I'll just go ahead and cherish this special time.
If you're a paper book person, go buy the book (you can order it from O'Reilly, and probably get it a bunch of other places, too). I'm getting to the point where I'll pay for e-books, and probably refuse free paper books. I'm fully prepared to be called a freak for that, but the truth is that my house is overflowing with stacks of books, collecting dust, and e-book readers passed a point of inflection for me in the last year or so. I read the e-books on my Treo 600 phone thing. It's always with me, and it saves my place automatically. Mr. Gillmor (like other authors I'll feature here) has, as luck would have it, released the electronic version of his excellent book under the Creative Commons License. He's providing pdf versions of the chapters. For me, though, pdf doesn't work - there's currently no pdf reader for PalmOS, as far as I can tell. I need Palm Doc format or something similar that I can read with my favorite reader software, TiBR. I set off to work converting the book by mailing the pdf version to pdf2txt@adobe.com - a free service that converts pdfs to text. I got the reply, and started thinking about what remained to be done. Fortunately, before I spent any time on it :) I found this version, which was put together by John Goerzen. It's rough, but he did a much better job than I planned on doing. |
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