It has recently come to my attention that your favorite – and ours – fantasy series is slated to be incarnated into a video game. Finally, all that time you spent learning about Westeros is going to pay off. So grab your dire wolf, because virtual winter is coming!
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A study posted at useit.com, focusing on reading speeds, has pitted our heroes (iPads and Kindles) against their nemesis: the printed page. It’s a study that we’ve all wanted to see; these two sets of media battling it out in a colosseum while a wizened scroll looks on from shadowy booth high among the crowd. The two fight for hours, bits of pages and plastic blowing absently in the wind. There is a hush; the scroll lifts a shaking hand, and with a sudden motion that belies his age: thumbs down. One warrior does not leave the ring.

But this is about reading speeds and satisfaction. How do all of these things stack up?
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More and more frequently I have been noticing a trend with the ebooks that I purchase/download. My nook seems to have trouble figuring out how many pages a particular book actually has. I am curious as to whether this is a nook thing or a general ebook reader thing. My thoughts would lean towards the former.
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So you say that books are dumb because they take so long to read? Well, now is your chance to change that. Enter Spreeder, an online speed-reading thing that helps you read speedier.
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Today I was stumbling here and there, down some stairs, Bananas in Pajamas-style, when I came across this list from what could only be some sort of bloggy thing from Random House. The page in question is entitled Modern Library. Research has yet to lead me to any results regarding the nature of the site, but I did find a “Cart” link so I assume they are trying to sell you something. Be that as it may, they do have a very interesting list of books in this post. What kind of books? Just the 100 BEST BOOKS, durr.

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