Book Review: The Book of Lost Souls

I have been reading “The Book of Lost Souls” by Michelle Muto. It’s quite good, and easy to read if you want a fast read. I wasn’t sure at first when it started describing how the protagonist, Ivy, is a witch and is friends with vampires and werewolves, felt a little bit Twilight-y there, and [...]

Book Review: Grimm’s Fairy Stories

I have been reading Grimm’s Fairy Stories on my Kindle and really enjoyed re-reading stories from my childhood! These are the early versions of the stories we know and love, although they are a bit darker than the modern Disney versions we know, but that makes them much better i think! My favourite stories include: [...]

The search for the perfect Kindle cover

I recently acquired a Kindle 4 for Christmas and am eager to avoid it ending up scratched and bashed like everything else (phone, mp3 player, etc all blighted by unsightly dents and blemishes) because i live by my personal mantra: “if it ain’t tough, it won’t survive”! So clearly it is very important to find [...]

Apple launches iBooks 2 app

The hottest news of the week in the publishing world was the announcement by Apple that they were launching the iBooks 2 app. This app allows anyone to create their own ebook. It is mainly for authors wanting to create textbook ebooks for studying, with the app allowing them to upload content such as videos, [...]

The Wallee – a wall-mount for the Ipad

I found this strange contraption today while surfing the internet, the Wallee. It is a hardback case for the Ipad, which can be mounted on the wall with a special bracket. Now, i find this a bit odd, as the point of the Ipad is that it is a portable computer, and attaching it to [...]

Ipads in society

I was in a restaurant a few nights ago (celebrating my graduation from university, might i add!) with my parents, and my mum spotted a woman on a table behind us who had brought her Ipad with her to dinner. Now we thought this to be quite an interesting, but odd sight, particularly as it was [...]

Going Digital: Is it all it’s cracked up to be?

Is going digital all its cracked up to be? Like everything else, digital does has its downsides, and although the following are more speculation than anything else, they are things to think about if we carry on down this path. How empty is our world going to be in the future, if we no longer have [...]