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Plug for Crossed Genre and the Aether Age
The folks over at Crossed Genres have released their first novel: A Festival of Skeletons, by New Zealand author R.J. Astruc. It’s described as a novel of “zombies, necromancers, merkind, serial killers and cross-dressing”, so if that sounds fun, you might want to check it out! It’s available from Amazon in both print and Kindle…
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Shiny big bonus ebook roundup!
It will or at least SHOULD surprise none of you that since I was handed a raise and a review bonus, in addition to getting my shiny new guitar, I also cut a big swath through my ebook wishlist! Drum roll, if you please: Also, although this is an audiobook it does IMO count: That…
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Awesome Guitar Acquisition of Awesomeness
Ladies and gentlemen, as promised, today I went with my beloved solarbird to Dusty Strings and got myself a shiny brand new guitar! It took a bit of deciding, especially given that the place was a madhouse (they were having an open house and concert and they were packed wall to wall with people), but…
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How to read ebooks page added!
It occurred to me that I should have a top-level page about how to read ebooks on my site, so I have now added one. If you hit the angelakorrati.com index, you should see it now on the menu. If you like, please feel free also to refer people interested in the topic to http://www.angelakorrati.com/how-to-read-ebooks/.…
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How to read ebooks, Part 5: How to read ebooks on your computer
Say you want to get into ebooks but you’re not sure what reading device you want to buy yet. Don’t worry, you’re not out of luck! If you’re reading this post at all you still have the ability to read ebooks right in front of you: i.e., on your computer. This post is all about…
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Book Log #76: The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood
It wasn’t until I actually started reading Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood that I found out it was in fact a sequel to Oryx and Crake, which I am told is actually a better book. This I didn’t find a hardship, because I did actually like The Year of the Flood. And thankfully,…
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How to read ebooks, Part 4: Do you want a dedicated reading device?
This is the (overdue) part 4 of my series of posts on how to choose what you want in a reading device. This particular post’s topic: do you want a device that just focuses on reading books? Or do you want it to do other things as well? I was pretty happy with my iPhone…
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Yet another power outage
But at least this one was short. Woke up around 5:30, and failed to get back to sleep in the Comfy Blankets of Comfiness, so around 6:30 I thought “screw it” and got up with the intention of having a nice leisurely breakfast and then heading out for work. So there I was boiling water…
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iTunes 10 user? Annoyed by moving of Close/Minimize/Zoom buttons?
Found a fix for putting those buttons back in the configuration that EVERY OTHER MAC PROGRAM STILL USES, with a quick Google. Open up a Terminal window and type in the following line: defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -boolean YES Then restart iTunes and the Close/Minimize/Zoom buttons should be back in their previous arrangement. Yay!
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Ebook postings now resuming!
Apologies for the hiatus on the ebook posts, y’all; they ran into a roadblock when Seattle got smacked upside the head with winter early last week, and then the holidays kicked in, so! As of tomorrow I will resume the rest of the ebook posts, though! If you missed the previous ones, here are their…
