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At my workplace are doing some work with Infibeam for their new ereader Pi. A quick rundown on the specs (from the Infibeam site) Height     188 mm Width     118 mm Thickness     9.5 mm Weight     180 gm Screen / Display     * 6" E Ink® Vizplex     * 600x800 pixels     * No backlight. Daylight readable. Battery Life     7 days File Formats Supported Books / Text     PDF, EPUB, HTML, TXT, MOBI, DOC Images     JPG, BMP, PNG Audio     MP3 Control & Connectors     * 3 mm Audio Earphone Connector     * SD Card Slot     * Mini USB Slot     * Button for 4-Way Navigation & Selection.     * Buttons back, home, plus / minus for size changes etc. Internal Memory     512 MB SD Card Slot upto 4GB   ...

This is a stop motion video of a Jigsaw puzzle my mother and brother put together. I took 300 time delayed photos with my Canon PowerShot Series S5 IS slaved to my laptop and knitted everything together in Windows Movie Maker and this is the end result.

About 10 days ago, a journo from HT Brunch followed the ever popular Kindle in India post and left a comment saying he would like to speak to me regarding my experience using the Kindle. So he called up and asked his questions. He then called back asking if they could photograph the Kindle (amusingly HT, which publishes a Kindle edition did not have a Kindle handy to shoot) which he did against the backdrop of my wife's Agatha Christie collection. (in case you are curious, the book open in the Kindle is one from the Star Wars series). I was quoted some. You can read the story here .

We recently got a bookshelf made for our house and all the books that had been jammed into clothes cupboards and  were lying around the house came together into it. I found (re-discovered) a a book titled The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary , a book I bought almost a couple of years ago at a BN store in Baltimore . Anyway so I finally decided to start reading it. A few dozen pages into the book I was wishing to myself. Does it have a Kindle edition? ( It does .) In a few short weeks I have become addicted to reading on the Kindle. I don’t think I will ever be comfortable reading long form text on a computer screen as it exists today. Even reading physical books  seems to be a bit old fashioned. I will admit that there is there are lots of merits in a physical book. No battery. You can toss it anywhere with almost anything without anything happening to it. You can stamp on it etc. etc. But still. The only reason one would want books is for be...