HBO’s popular fantasy series Game of Thrones is back tonight with episode 1 of season 3. You can get in on the fun with the Paper Flying Dragons book by Pat Murphy. This book includes fully illustrated punch out parts that will allow you to create 12 paper dragons includes: 5 foot long flyers, 5 [...]
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I think Todd Thyberg is cool. He’s kind of like Ben Franklin (printer), Jules Verne (sci fi writer), Betsy Ross (seamstress) and a smartphone geek all wrapped up in one person. Todd has written The Airship, a 12 page, 3 color illustrated sci fi graphic novel that has been printed on a 90 year old Vandercook [...]
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Taking good photos is very important to me. Not only do I want to have good photos of family and friends, but I need good photos for my reviews here at The Gadgeteer. The Adorama Learning Center has three eBooks that can help me improve my photo skills, and they are offering free downloads of [...]
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The first edition of Encyclopedia Britannica was released in 1768 by three visionary Scotsmen. It became the standard reference on many a household bookshelf. On March 13th 2012 via their blog, they announced that after 244 years their current 32-volume printed edition (the first edition was 3 volumes) would be the last print version available when their [...]
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If you still read dead tree books and need a way to mark your page that’s a little more fun than traditional bookmarkers, you might like the FingerPrint Bookmark Band. It’s a silicone rubber band with a molded finger that will point to a specific sentence. They are available in assorted colors. The only problem [...]
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With the advent of computer e Readers, Kindle and Nook, it would seem as though the book in audio form would be obsolete. I’ve never been a big fan of audio books. I like the idea a lot because it makes literature in all forms available to the visually impaired, it’s an interesting way to [...]
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Tikatok is an online book community where kids write, illustrate and publish their very own books. The site provides easy-to-use Web tools so that any child can become a published author and turn his story ideas into real books and incorporate his very own artwork as illustrations. Children can then take their book and share [...]
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This site might be interesting to those of you that still prefer physical books to ebooks. Bookins is a website where you can trade books and DVDs with other readers. Bookins arranges the trades from you to one member and from a third member back to you, and so on. You never have to contact [...]
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Dave Rees and I were chatting the other day about how we would each like to write a book at some point in the future (the very near future for me – I hope). The conversation turned to selling these books and Dave suggested going the electronic distribution path instead of the traditional forest killing [...]
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