BSD & Gaming

I read a lot, always have. Once PDA devices were introduced and allowed users to carry around tons of reading material in a small thin piece of electronic gadgetry I was hooked.

Here it is years later and I moved on to my 10″ zPad but I couldn’t find a decent reader. I’ve been looking high and low for an ebook reader that allowed for a decent variety of book formats, had screen orientation options, backlighting options, along with background images to make what I’m looking at more visually appealing. I finally got one that does it all…. the way I want it to.

Cool Reader has all the features I mentioned and a ton more, go take a look at their website to get all the details [LINK]. There’s no crappy trial period or sleazy LITE vs PRO garbage – it’s FREE for non-commercial use, period.

August 2011 BSD Magazine is now available! Go to http://www.bsdmag.org and download your free copy.

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The handbook for PC-BSD v8.2  is now available for download in the EPUB format as well as html, odt, and pdf.

Download the handbook here – [ LINK ]

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In a New York Times article Amazon.com says it was selling 143 eBooks for every 100 paper copies and now sales are on the increase hitting 180 per 100. I can understand why sales are up from my own perspective. I love to read …and I love books! However years of lugging around tons of books every time I move has been a nightmare, being able to have all those hundreds of pounds of books on a few data disks…. it’s just too convenient.

It’s not an easy choice when you sentimentalize hard-copy books the way some of us do. Some books in my collection were gifts from people and those are especially hard to consider getting rid of. Every book holds a memory for me, not just the work itself…  where I was, what I was doing and experiencing at the time when I read it. That experience doesn’t hold for me with the digital editions. Getting rid of my hard-copy versions is something I’ve been contemplating for some time now but not a choice I’ve been able to make yet.

NYT’s story is here – [LINK]