Posted: August 21st, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: on reading | Tags: 1001 books | No Comments »
This book is not Kindlized yet. However, it is an important and useful title.
Below list, in reverse chronological order, comes from the book. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It’s a starting point, not the Final Answer.
There are 46 books in 1700′s on the list. First 23 of them are listed on part 1 . This post is part 2 for the remaining 23 books. Most of the books are free. Click on the links or images and enjoy:
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966. Emile
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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980. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus
Posted: August 7th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: on reading | No Comments »
Amazon’s Number One Classic Reviewer Mrs. Harriet Klausner reviewed her 25,000th book in July 2011. She says on her profile page: “I am a speed reader( a gift I was born with) and read two books a day.”
Fair enough.
She needs 12,500 days to read all 25,000 books. It takes 416.67 months which is equal to 34.72 years for her to read them. She didn’t write anything yet, so assuming she is also a solid writer, writing 2 reviews a day everyday after reading her 2 books, she still needs 34.72 years to do this body of work.
However, no person or machine is 100% efficient. We fall sick, fight with our spouse /boss / son / dog / cat or simply cannot work that day. Assuming a top-notch 90% efficiency, required minimum time is 38.58 years.
With all due respect, we need at least 2.4 Mrs. Harriet Klausners in this equation since her first review on Amazon cannot be more than 16 years ago (Amazon sold its first book online on July 1995).
To be mathematically credible, it should read: “I read and review 5 books a day.”
I think, credibility is quite important. In fact, it should be the first quality that we should look for in a reviewer.
Posted: August 4th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: on reading | Tags: 1001 books | 1 Comment »
This book is not Kindlized yet. However, it is an important and useful title.
Below list, in reverse chronological order, comes from the book. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It’s a starting point, not the Final Answer.
There are 46 books in 1700′s on the list. First 23 of them are listed below as part 1 . I will post part 2 for the remaining 23 books soon. Most of the books are free. Click on the links or images and enjoy:
Posted: July 27th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: news, on reading | No Comments »
I think so. As part of my publishing efforts for OrangeSky Project on Kindle Store and fishing always for quality free books or deals for Best Kindle Reads, I am seeing increasingly more useless content on Amazon’s Kindle Store nowadays.
I also made a Google search about the topic and found an interesting Reuters article published last month supporting what I saw first hand.
It is not hard to see that left to its own dynamic, Self Publishing is going to lead inevitably to spam at some point due to entrophy. That some point seems to be now.
It just proves that why sites like Best Kindle Reads is needed more and more to sort through this information overload and fight against natural selection of rubbish over quality content online in general and in systems like Amazon’s Kindle Store in particular.
As Umberto Eco postulated in one of his articles in 1990′s, we may very well face rubbish like porn eredicating philosophical texts in the near future. I invite everybody to join the fight today since real knowledge is not infinite and it only increases by sharing.
Posted: July 13th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: on reading | No Comments »
“If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.” ~ Tom Peters
- If you want to be wealthy than study wealth. If you want to be happy than study happiness. Learning is important because it helps one develop conviction of the need to change.
- This conviction to change (awareness) develops into determination.
- Next, one transforms determination into action. You must exert the effort to establish new habit patterns. This is the only way that inner change and transformation takes place.
How do we learn? How do we feed our mind and soul like feeding our body? We feed our mind with ideas. They are called “food for thought” for a reason right? I would like to suggest that there is no other like a good book to accomplish this.
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
Mark Twain
Yes, I read 100 books a year. I still think it is not enough given the literature coming my way. I do have 10 major suggestions and they aren’t specific to speed reading.
- Plan to read many books a year. It’s helpful to know that you have a couple of days to finish. This helped my speed.
- Turn TV off.
- It doesn’t hurt to be a fast reader. I am a fast reader though I don’t particularly like speed reading.
- Have several books with you always. I travel with several, even on short trips. Best way to accomplish this is to buy a Kindle. This will stop the frustration of carrying.
- Read at work at lunch. Take an hour and read.
- Read every night.
- Use books on mp3 if you must. I’m not against learning this way, but it is not like reading for me.
- Use public transporation for commuting. Read or listen mp3 books.
- Read quickly initially, and then re-read if you feel so compelled.
- Take Emerson’s advice to heart: “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
Regarding price: Use your library and use Best Kindle Reads deals, free books or ask me to borrow any Kindle book for free. I will gladly share my library with you.
Books and reading are my hobby, so I spend money on them.
“When I was a child, whenever I got two dimes, I reserved one dime for books. Otherwise, I could not have done what I did.”
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Posted: July 10th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: on reading | Tags: 1001 books | No Comments »
This book is not Kindlized yet. However, it is an important and useful title.
Below list, in reverse chronological order, comes from the book. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It’s a starting point, not the Final Answer.
There are 13 books in Pre-1700′s on the list shown below. 3 of them are not kindlized yet. Click on the links or images and enjoy:
998. Aithiopika by Heliodorus
Posted: June 20th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: deals, on reading | Tags: anthology | No Comments »
I love anthologies. They give a coverage of the genre or area of literature that I am focusing on. After reading the anthology, I expand on the body of works of the authors that I liked most. This is a very efficient way of proceeding on focused readings. Give it a try.
This is a great anthology especially if you like short short stories. There are 125 stories in this collection with 25 or fewer words from best-selling and award-winning authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub, and James Frey, as well as emerging writers.
Editor Robert Swartwood says: ”Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s infamous six-word story — “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn” — Hint Fiction is a story of 25 words or fewer that suggests a larger, more complex story. The stories in Hint Fiction might appear tiny and innocent, but they indeed pack a punch to the reader, proving that less is definitely more. ”
Posted: May 16th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: news, on reading | No Comments »
We heard Bezos himself saying: “Stay Tuned” about a possible Amazon Tablet last week. These news already created a lot of speculations favoring the under-dog Amazon versus current champion Apple. This is the case because journalists knows like a good writer how to build up the conflict. There is no surprise here. Amazon Tablet will be a killer product and finish of iPad in the Arena.
Let’s sit back and look at Amazon’s real business case here though. It will not be good move to take the bull by the horns at this stage. This move will dilute Amazon’s strategical focus from eBooks to games and applications and a ton of other things too soon in my humble opinion.
Remember how Amazon has become the biggest on-line retailer in the world. It started with the books and now fully evolved into eBooks with Kindle. Amazon occasionally enjoys other purchases like my son’s shoes because of their great customer service but in the final analysis Amazon is “The Bookstore” for readers still. It should try to stay that way. This is hard enough to protect at this stage. Let me remind everybody again about the eBook revolution at our doorsteps here.
Doesn’t Amazon stand a chance given its retail structure? Of course, they do. It is now obvious that Amazon will drive the tablet prices lower by making special offers using advertisements. See Kindle 3 with special offers.
Amazon in fact stands a better chance than anybody else, but my point is simply this: “Should you always race because you can?” A la Peter Drucker, leadership is doing the right things whereas management is doing things right. I hope Bezo’s intrinsic leadership will prevail at the end.
In this case, I put my money against an Amazon tablet and rather spend it to deliver the best eBook reading experience to readers by any means necessary. It will be interesting to write a follow-up to this post with hindsight later.
Posted: May 11th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: on reading, tips | 1 Comment »
- You can have great savings. Just following Best Kindle Reads for a month you can save more than 1800$ compared to print prices as shown in the blog Tagline. With the new initiative to borrow from libraries and projects like Orange Sky and Domino, this will even get better going forward.
- Kindle’s are great for traveling. They can be used on planes the entire flight and readers can access books anywhere. The Kindle lets you bring your entire book shelf with you wherever you go. It is clear that for the travelling academic, the Kindle would be the only way to read multiple texts on the road. If you have hundreds of books in Turkey, Canada, South Africa and South Korea like me, Kindle is a God send.
- Kindle reads out loud to you. If your eyes are tired, you can still continue with this feature.
- Kindle 3G lets you to use internet without extra charge almost anywhere in the world(You pay 50$ more for 3G model and that’s it). You have access to your e-mail, and simple web pages like Google, Wikipedia and Amazon stores. You don’t need a computer with 3G model to manage your Kindle. Your purchases, highlights and notes are synchronized seamlessly using Whispersync technology.
- E-Ink technology is better for your eyes. Unlike LCD screens, Kindle uses E-Ink technology which is not straining on your eyes if you read long hours. Kindle screen is not back-lighted so you need a light to read Kindle in the dark which is more healthy than LCD’s.
- You can highlight and make tidy annotations on Kindle. You can access your highlights and notes online too which effectively means that you can copy from your books online anywhere! You can also use “My Clippings” text file on your Kindle which contains your highlights and notes by connecting to a computer via USB. Moreover, you can see how many people highlighted a certain popular passage on your books now while reading.
- You can find 1 million books on Kindle. This is a sizeable selection now as reported in the blog Tagline every day. It will get geometrically increased soon. EBook sales in US surpassed paperbacks in February 2011 for the first time. Time has come for EBooks for sure.
In US, new Kindle with special offers is now only 114$. It is time to consider a Kindle today.
Posted: May 7th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: on reading | Tags: 1001 books | No Comments »
(Hardcover) Buy New $23.07. You saved 11.88$ (34%)
This book is not Kindlized yet. However, it is an important and useful title.
Below list, in reverse chronological order, comes from the book. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Rather, Boxall was trying to trace the development of the novel. It’s a starting point, not the Final Answer.
There are 69 books in 2000s on the list shown below. 24 of them (one third) are not kindlized yet. Some titles are not available in US too. Click on the links or images and enjoy. You saved 160.05$.
I intend to continue this list in my future posts.
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall
