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Textkit
Update: March 2025 — Unfortunately, the site won’t load. When you hit the home page at Textkit.com it looks pretty sad. The site is obviously broken, the image and CSS files having been stored and linked from a rackspacecloud.com account…
It’s Alive! It’s Alive!
What a great week! First, I heard from Professor Grote. And today, Jim Tirey, the brains behind Textkit!! You always hope when you find that things have not changed for the better that there’s a happy reason. What a relief to know that’s true…
LibraryThing Android App
It’s been a long time coming, but LibraryThing has launched their app for Android. The iPhone app has been available for awhile, so it’s nice to see one for the rest of us. 🙂 I haven’t tried it out yet, but looking forward to it!
Yeah, I Needed Another Project!
I took on this project because, well, you can never have enough of them, right?! Goodness! I still love it — I’m not giving up as I’ve been a bookworm since I learned to read. Came across this literature map of the world today and just…
BookLikes
I’d like to be able to comment on my experience with BookLikes, but I can’t “get in” and, apparently, I’m not the only one. Better be paying attention when that verification code comes in. I obviously wasn’t! 🙂…
8 Ways to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year
Neil Pasricha’s article in the Harvard Business Review has eight great suggestions on time management and organization: Centralize reading in your home, Make a public commitment, Find a few trusted lists, Change your mindset about quitting, Channel…
Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse by David Ferry
I haven’t read any of the other translations of this book, but I will, so I can compare them. I really enjoyed this one, though. There’s also a great section with information about how David Ferry made decisions on how to deal with some of…