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“Is it bestiality if he turns from a dolphin into a human while they’re having sex?” October 14, 2013

Kobo COO Michael Tamblyn at FutureBook 2013, “Infinite Shades of Grey: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing,” on 9 days of hell.

Quote: On October 12th, Kobo had a significant catalogue of self-published titles in the UK. Tens of thousands of authors and hundreds of thousands of titles, a thriving part of our UK business. Living the dream, as they say.

On October 14th, we had zero self-published titles available in the UK from zero authors and our 300-year-old retail partner had suspended their web presence.

For more context please read this first:
http://janefriedman.com/2013/11/28/writing-on-the-ether-118/

Or start with the video and transcript here:

Infinite Shades of Grey: The Promise and Peril of Self-Publishing in the UK

Francis Bacon once remarked “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Today’s StumbleUpon advent find is this article on How to Read a Book, which looks at the four levels of reading Mortimer Adler wrote about:

Elementary
Inspectional
Analytical
Syntopical

In short, the goal of reading determines how you read.
http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/how-to-read-a-book/

BookSeer.com helps you find what to read next.

Chicago, 1940

My StumbleUpon advent calendar stumbled upon my cold that laid me up in bed for the last few days. Alors, here we go with an archive photo of a travelling library. This photo reminds me of a similar one in Todd Babiak’s Edmonton Public Library Centennial book.

Today’s advent discovery on StumbleUpon is more than 100 literary masterpieces bound in the finest electronic leather.

Source: http://imgs.zinio.com/retail_srvs/classics/

Mark Grambau’s poster series celebrates the form, dynamism, and unique aesthetics of superheroes. Each characters is represented with their iconic color palette, silhouette, and catchphrase or slogan.

See more posters here: http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Superherovillain-posters/194362/?_nospa=true

How Kindle’s Paperwhite Technology Works

The Kindle Paperwhite uses a unique lighting system to illuminate its electronic ink display. Rather than using a backlight as on LCD-based tablets, the Paperwhite uses a transparent light guide that directs light from four edge-mounted LEDs down toward the surface of the display. See how it all works!
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/26/technology/light-reading.html?ref=technology

Today’s StumbleUpon Advent find is 13 “Top 100 Books” lists combined and condensed into one master list. That’s 623 books in all!

Source: http://www.alistofbooks.com/?_nospa=true

Notables reads for me within in the top 100:
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Mrs Dalloway
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Day 2 of my StumbleUpon advent calendar. This one is beautiful!

照片 189 by Ginger Garden
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginger1977/4129130815/sizes/o/in/photostream/

The Christmas spirit has captured me this year so each day I’m going to play with StumbleUpon as a little digital advent calendar. Instead of a paper calendar I’m going to push the StumbleUpon button and see what I get. One a day, leading up to Christmas. I’ll post the reveal here for you to also enjoy.

Source: http://kevron2001.deviantart.com/art/Night-light-345379702