E-Books: A New Way to Enjoy Reading

I HAVE a new hobby now. Aside from collecting books, I am now starting to collect e-books. My shelves are already piling up, so it’s about time to save space.

This started when Cors sent me e-books. I did not have time to read them because I was too busy and I can’t always take the laptop anywhere . But I jut couldn’t resist reading those e-books of the hype that goes around about the books. 

Read Maniac, a java application, helped solve my problem. I am now bringing along the e-books wherever I go. I just converted the e-books (originally in pdf) to html files, which Read Maniac can read. Whenever I’m travelling or in a long queue, I just take out my phone and listen to Stephanie Meyer and her Vamp stories.

However, there are some drawbacks. I have to keep scolling because my phone can only accommodate at most 11 lines of text. So I had to read about 6 thousand pages of text. But that’s fine with me. And of course, it doesn’t have the nostalgic aroma of paper and ink.

For those who can’t put down a book even while on the go, you can dowload e-books here:

• Free E-Books
• Planet PDF
• Ebooks.com
• Reading E-Books
• ZanyBooks.com

Have fun reading!

The Author That Frightened Us All Dies

HE GAVE the world the much celebrated Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, and ER. Now, I’m going to give him my humble tribute in this post.

The Eaters of the Dead  was my first Crichton. It was the novel that really made me hate him for what he did to me. But that was actually an appreciation of how convincing a writer he is. I appreciated him more in Congo, with which I can so relate–not because I have a Gorilla friend but because It deals with some physics and yes, it’s loaded with adventures.

I have so many attempts at writing the Crichton way but I just don’t have the skill. His is a unique talent that enabled him to come up with masterful novels that affected the lives of many.

To my dear friend, at least because he told me stories and took me to the land of the Norsemen and to Africa,  Michael Crichton, may you rest in peace. With the existence of a huge number of young writers you have inspired, rest assured, literature is in good hands.

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