Reviews and other ponderings
After an earlier post, where I suggested that libraries might use physical placeholders for ebooks, I had a little snoop around and found many ways of doing it. Here is one: I got the link to the epub file of Gutenberg Project’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’. I pasted it here, and you see the result below. [...]
Earlier today, I tweeted this: Note to Richard Dawkins: trying to teach humans to think non-religiously is like trying to teach foxes to become vegetarians. The point I was trying – and, no doubt, failing – to make was this: that we think ‘rationally’ very rarely. We experience the world though the medium of a [...]
I visited my daughter’s school a few evenings ago, which meant I got the chance to have a look at her school library. It was just what you would expect – lots of books, a nice environment. However, one thing struck me: a lot of the books on the shelves were now in the public [...]