I’m back. The break was great. We went to Jamaica just before Christmas with my wife’s side of the family, and we just finished Christmas with my side of the family. It’s time to start doing some philosophy. The really exciting news is that my wife and my folks went in together and bought me… Continue Reading
UPDATE: 12/28/09 It only took the people over at NookDevs a week to jailbreak the Nook. There is a now a softmod that gets you a web browser. This is what I love about having an eReader that runs the Android open source OS – the odds of us getting the eReader to do what… Continue Reading
I’ve been waiting for the perfect eReader to sweep me off my feet with its native PDF capability and huge file capacity. I thought it would be the Nook, but it looks like the annotation function is missing some desirable features. There’s also salient possibility that PDFs of journal articles will be too small to… Continue Reading
I mentioned how excited I was for the Nook here. A large part of the enthusiasm was that, as an academic philosopher, I really want an eReader that has native PDF support. I want to build a huge, awesome eLibrary of philosophy journal articles. I’m still excited about the Nook, but this enthusiasm has been… Continue Reading
A couple days ago, I posted about my reasons why I wanted a Nook and why I think philosophers should be interested in it. However, something has come to my attention that makes this is device slightly less attractive. Based on the discussion forum here, it looks like annotation is only available on items that… Continue Reading
So, just yesterday the tech community started freaking out (in a good way) about Barnes and Noble’s new eReader – the nook. There’s a lot to be excited about. It has the e-ink technology. The basic idea behind e-ink is that it interacts with yours eyes like reading text off of a page. I’ve seen… Continue Reading