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Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. e-Books? More like Pee-Books! Am I Right?<\/a> – Chuck Wendig distills down almost everything I feel is wrong with ebooks and ebook readers (and, egads, ecomics). “It\u2019s why price point is a problem for me. If I\u2019m taking a worse format \u2014 worse in the sense that is is less versatile and, importantly, offers me less control over how I use it \u2014 then I think the prices remain too high.” As the formats and their utility currently stand now, I want to pay little enough that if the vendor goes under or the technology is obsoleted, I won’t feel cheated at having lost it all.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. e-Books? More like Pee-Books! Am I Right? – Chuck Wendig distills down almost everything I feel is wrong with ebooks and ebook readers (and, egads, ecomics). “It\u2019s why price point is a problem for me. If I\u2019m taking a … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 3-Oct-10 1731)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6812,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/27\/for_better.html","url_meta":{"origin":18799,"position":0},"title":"For Better","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Dec-04 10:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sorry to read that Lynn Johnston will be ending For Better or for Worse in September 2007 (free reg. req'd). 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