Category: Books
Add a Vintage Look to Your High-Tech Kindle
Busted Typewriter is selling a collection of hollowed out books as hidden compartments, including snug cases for the Kindle and Kindle DX. This is pretty nifty to way to read…
Let The Book Seer Choose Your Next Book
Have you already gone through everything on your Kindle? Don’t know how to fill up that 2 gigabytes (or the whopping 4 on DX)? Let The Book Seer come to…
Agatha Christie, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #17
Agatha Christie is often referred as the “Queen of Crime”, due to the crime novels and short stories featuring the famous detectives Hercule Poirot and and Miss Jane Marple. Lots…
Joseph Conrad, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #16
Joseph Conrad is famous not only for his works adapted into well-known films such as Apocalypse Now and Sabotage; he also stands out as he was a Polish-born novelist who…
Arthur Conan Doyle, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #15
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL was a British author born to an English father of Irish descent and an Irish mother. Though having chosen the profession of a physician…
Haruki Murakami, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #14
Haruki Murakami began his writing career much later than most authors; he finished his first novel when he was 29. Since then, as if to catch up, he has proved…
Newspapers going digital in 20 years, textbooks – by August, 2009
Two interesting pieces of news surfaced recently: Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, gave a speech on Sunday titled “The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead…
George Orwell, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #12
George Orwell is a pen name of English author Eric Arthur Blair; he is most known for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the concepts like “thought police” and “doublethink” derived…
Aldous Huxley, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #11
Aldous Huxley’s books are often received with mixed emotions or even controversy. In 2006 Time magazine excluded Brave New World, Point Counter Point and Island from Best 100 novels list, which…
Douglas Adams, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #10
Douglas Noel Adams is best known for the science fiction comedy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Originally radio broadcast series, they later inspired “a trilogy in five parts” as well…