Electronic devices on planes are dangerous...

... but not for the reason the FAA seems to want you to believe. If progress [toward changing the rules] is slow, there will eventually be a...

The ultimate reason to switch to ebooks.

Bedbugs!! That's hot news in the NYT, but of course, insects have been enjoying the nourishment of books for a long long time, and book-...

"Listen, I like stopping by Althouse, but let's get real. Althouse and Meade are living a high-income, privileged life that many of us can only dream about."

Rants Jeffrey in my "time to stop talking about the election and have our lives be about love and beauty " post. It takes a day ...

"Marc, Soren and I are at home with candles, kindles and canned food!"

"Any must-read recommendations for waiting out a storm?" It's Chelsea Clinton, tweeting from the dark zone of New York City. N...

The 200 greatest novels, stories, and poems...

... for $2.99. (The Complete Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, "carefully selected by the world's leading experts on literature a...

Top 100 political best sellers.

100 that you have to pay for, plus 100 that are free as ebooks. (The #1 free political ebook is "The Communust Manifesto." I just ...

Book reviewer's weapon: the Kindle search.

Chez Amazon, a customer review — voted overwhelmingly "helpful" — complains about bad writing in the form of repetition and prove...

The 8 ghosts that haunt "Dreams From My Father."

This is the second in a series of posts based on the search for a single word in Barack Obama's memoir "Dreams From My Father....

"And... that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do."

"All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny." The Director said sententiously. A quote, IM...

A soft-porn, pulpy romance novel hits #1 on the NYT ebook list...

... and the NYT writes a lifestyle-trends-type article about it. “Fifty Shades of Grey” and the two other titles in the series were written...

Switching from paper books to ebooks may turn into a transition away from books altogether.

Once you're on the iPad/Kindle Fire, it's so tempting to do other things too — email, Facebook, Googling here and there — that you l...

Kindle books.

The best books of 2011. Monthly deals on Kindle books. I like reading Kindle books with the Kindle app on iPad, but if you want a Kindle-bra...

"Look, if you put the Internet on the device I am supposed to be using to read, I will never read again."

"Can you blame me? I am only human. I can’t focus. If all these studies about multitasking have taught us anything, it is that we all t...

The new color Kindle.

The Kindle Fire. Is it better than an iPad? It's clearly cheaper. It's also lighter (413 grams as compared to 601 grams). A big issu...

Roger Ebert, quoting John Waters: "If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't f**k them."

A stark tweet. In the future, all the books will be ebooks, and it will be so much harder for Ebert and Waters to discern who deserves their...

So now there's this theory that the iPad is going to cause insomnia but the Kindle will not.

This is a big, long article in CNN that doesn't seem have much science to it.  Theoretically, the light emanating from electronic scre...

Two vlogs about my Amazon Kindle.

1. First, I review the Amazon Kindle and compare it to books, audiobooks, and the Rocket Book. 2. The second vlog is not a review but a quiz...

Blogging the conventions.

I see the Democratic Party is about to accept applications to bloggers to cover their convention (in Denver next summer): The move gives bl...

"Good night, my darlings, I’ll see you tomorrow."

Noël Coward's last words, from a review by John Simon . Lots of good tidbits in the review. I like this one: "To me, the essence of...

Leopard.

Ah! I'm so happy with Leopard, which I've just installed in my MacBook, and I can boil my reason for happiness down to one word: But...