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My wonderful wife surprised me with a Kindle Fire this week. I love it. Most of the complaints I have read about it are from people who expect it to be an alternative to the iPad. I don’t really consider the Fire a tablet any more than I would consider the iPad to be an eReader. The screen is much sharper than the iPad’s and it is much better for reading in bed at night. Ever doze off reading on an iPad? One word: ouch.
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I haven’t posted anything in over a month because I was busy finishing the first draft of my novel. It was my goal to complete it before January 1st. I did it. It is far from perfect and there are many more drafts ahead, but I now have a complete first draft.
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In the final stretches of finishing the first draft of my novel. I’ve always been a big fan of Scrivener, but I find I am much more productive using Ulysses. I was getting too distracted with all Scrivener’s bells and whistles. Ulysses has similar functions, but they are nicely tucked away. It is Mac only, I’m afraid, but you can pick it up for about half the price of Scrivener.
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The early days of ebooks. Interactive electronic books that came on either a floppy disk or a CD ROM from a company named Voyager.
From Apple’s Summer 1993 catalog:
Voyager introduces a dynamic new way to read exciting best sellers. Expanded books combine the most enjoyable aspect of traditional books with Macintosh benefits such as variable type size, customize word search and indexing, and on-screen pop-up annotation-even the ability to read at night without the light on!
