#books

43 bookmarks

https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Someone out there is writing a comprehensive quide to making software, stating from first principles...

alasdairw Jul 18, 2025

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nook-pulls-out-...

If I owned a Nook, I would a) be furious and b) be looking to break the DRM on everything on it, ASA...

alasdairw Mar 07, 2016

http://the-toast.net/2014/08/06/100-actual-titles-...

Many of these are brilliant. I think we should bring back eighteenth century style naming for ficti...

alasdairw Aug 08, 2014

http://io9.com/10-books-that-could-change-the-way-...

OK, I think I may need to pick up a few of these, so just noting for future reference.

alasdairw May 29, 2014

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/0...

Here's a good primer on why Amazon are likely to be long-term bad for creators. As well as being sh...

alasdairw May 27, 2014

http://londonist.com/2013/12/mapped-londons-indepe...

Not that i buy a lot of physical books these days, but handy nonetheless.

alasdairw Jan 02, 2014

http://www.togather.com/

A kickstarter-like arrangement for book tours. That's actually pretty cool.

alasdairw Aug 07, 2012

http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/006145.php

This is either brilliant, or pure hypochondria fodder.

alasdairw Mar 23, 2012

http://infovore.org/archives/2012/02/26/a-year-of-...

This is really quite tempting, particularly as Tom's been kind enough to make the source code so rea...

alasdairw Feb 27, 2012

http://readmill.com/

I've just signed up for the beta of this service. Will dump books across to it in the next day or s...

alasdairw Aug 24, 2011

http://designersgotoheaven.com/post/2921794786/des...

Absolutely brilliant cover design for an absolutely excellent book.

alasdairw Aug 12, 2011

http://simonspurrier.blogspot.com/2011/08/serpent-...

I tweeted about this earlier, but tough. Simon Spurrier's "Contact" was one of the best novels I re...

alasdairw Aug 04, 2011

http://www.adramelech-books.co.uk/

Here is where you can order C.J. Lines new short short collection, Cold Mirrors. You should do this...

alasdairw Jun 22, 2011

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-simpler-page/

Discussion of laying out text for ipads (or similar) on the web, and a library to to the rendering....

alasdairw Jan 13, 2011

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/help-twelve-...

Your second stock-filler recommendation for the day! What are you waiting for? Go! Get shopping!...

alasdairw Dec 10, 2010