Some days you just gotta brag

As my regular readers know, I like to turn Barnes & Noble Nook Colors into full-fledged Android tablets.  For reasons that don’t bear further exploration at this juncture, I found myself with three Nooks to convert this past week.  Having already converted several, I though this time would be a breeze.  The first two were …

Electronic vs. Paper Books

I am a fast and voracious reader (I have been known to finish 3-4 books in a single weekend). I also have family on the East Coast, so I take a fair number of cross-country trips. The end result being that I have been known to devote more space to books than clothes when traveling. …

Do you really want a smartphone?

I was bored in the waiting room at my doctor’s office a week or so ago so I decided to have a look around.  In addition to some seriously outdated magazines (there were a couple of People’s from last century) I saw almost everyone fiddling with their smartphones.  It brought to mind an episode from …