As I’ve been playing with my new eBook reader (the only advantage of one’s birthday being near Christmas is the ability to combine monetary gifts for large purchases!) I’ve found a number of new sites for eBooks. One I like in particular is Feedbooks.
Feedbooks takes books in the public domain (both generated by them and [...]
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Feedbooks - For Those of You Who Like eBooks
PDFTextOnline - A Review
Lifehacker had a nice feature this morning on an online PDF to TXT tool. I don’t know about you, but I find myself hip deep in PDF’s that I’m always having to OCR and turn into something else.
PDFTextOnline doesn’t require registration and lets you edit them post transition.
I wanted to give this a good [...]
On the Importance of Self Education, Part II: The News and You
In the last part of this series I talked primarily about the importance and value of the education you can only give yourself - expanding your intellect and abilities beyond the classroom. It’s fairly abstract, so the rest of this series will be about how you educate yourself.
Our post yesterday concerned RSS feeds, and why [...]
13 Ways to Get Your News - RSS and You
Before I proceed onward to my post on self-education, I thought it best to discuss the technology involved in one of those methods.
Many readers of this blog will, no doubt, be very familiar with RSS feeds and the like. But some probably are not, and this is largely for you (though I learned a lot [...]
