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A Locate Service For Books

We Need Ping For Books. Execupundit has lost a book among his thousands of them. He now is envious of digital device users who can use the "Find My Phone" feature to locate lost devices. He now wants the feature for lost books. Actually, Michael, that already exists. Put those thousand books, in electronic form, on your smartphone, tablet computer, or notebook computer. Then, using a computer search algorithm, type the title or a keyword, and, presto, the book will appear. Sit in your favorite chair and read away. Isn't technology wonderful?

Solo Lawyers Find Power In The Internet.

Make Money Monday With Our Free Clause Of The Day. Carolyn Elefant, who publishes MyShingle.com, is publishing a new guide for solos, that incorporates sample legal clauses for lawyers, such as clauses for the initial employment agreement. Solos have a limitless resource in the Internent, and Carolyn has led the way. The Internet levels the playing field for solos, and it has made everything available to all. Thanks, Carolyn.

Can You Say "Self Publish"?

It's 2021, Bozo. Publish your own book. Editors are a doomed species.

"The Point, Dear Reader, Is Joy".

Allowance. Michael Wade, at Execupundit, points this morning to Steve Layman's great take on books. You don't have to read them all. You don't have to read them at all. You can read a little, look at the photographs and pictures, and you can lay them aside in a pile. It is ultimately, he says, about "joy". That revelation can be a turning point in anyone's life. It was for me. Thank Whomever Is Up There for allowing me to figure that out before I am dead. Now, you have the same opportunity. Live with joy. Do you really have another option?

Cancel Culture Is Coming For Dr. Seuss.

Dr. Seuss Books Won't Be Published. Execupundit points to this article at Yahoo which reports that Dr. Seuss Enterprises is canceling the publication of six books over allegedly racist overtones. First, the books are banned. Then, they are burned. This symbolic book burning is a symptom of a horrible disease. Free Speech is at stake. This is not a political argument. This is not acceptable in a free society. When we begin to measure our words against a shifting tide of opinion, we are on our way down a slippery slope to tyranny. Any thinking person knows this. Will we stand against it?

Replace Shakespeare In Colleges With The Hunger Games?

Teacher Group Wants Shakespeare Removed From Reading Lists. As a former English Lit major, this post by Jonathan Turley about the National Council of Teachers efforts to ban Shakespeare from curriculums because of his alleged racism, misogyny and other unwoke views, is an affront to my intelligence, and mindless beyond belief. First, Shakespeare was writing about characters in his plays who were "of their time". Second, a woke University Professor who seriously suggests the "the Hunger Games" is a more appropriate vehicle to teach literature to our kids is insane. Third, I don't know if I need to remind everyone that literature is a vehicle to educate, not indoctrinate. If we ignore the foibles of our fellow human beings in our literature, we risk a future in which those foibles flourish. What is wrong with you people? Somebody needs to stand up to them. Somebody needs to speak truth to power.

Google For Baby Boomers.

Wally Bock Gets It. We Don't Write Books To Make Money.

3 Reasons to choose a Legacy Book Publishing Company. This is a great article about the modern trend of self publishing books. As an example, nobody in their right mind ever wrote a book of poetry to make money. In my case, self publishing was the only way to scratch the itch, since legacy publishers generally are looking for poetry by mainstream or currently hip authors riding a social wave. In addition, I am a control freak about my writing, and self publishing gave me the total control I wanted. But, even business oriented books, like those that Wally facilitates, are written more because the author has a message, or wants exposure, than to make money from book sales. Book editors aren't infallible. I suspect that there are as many great books out there that never see the light of day as there are those that get published. Modern technology and self publishing advances allow anyone to see whether the real critics, the general public, are interested.

Project Gutenberg Has Over 60,000 Free EBooks. Therefore, I Have Over 60,000 Books On My Kindle.

Download Free Kindle Ebooks. You could spend a human lifetime, and never read 60,000 books. You certainly could never collect print versions of them, unless you were a major library. So, the ability to call up any book in seconds and read them, with illustrations, on a tiny device I can hold in my hand, is magical. I never get tired of spending a few minutes browsing the Project Gutenberg book list, knowing that someone isn't going to grab me by the shoulder and charge me something. I am reading the Collected Works Of Shakespeare this weekend. I won't finish, but I can keep at it, if fate gives me more time. "To Be or Not to Be." I think I will be and read today.

Kindle PaperWhite - Book Machine On Steroids.

Hundreds of thousands of books in my hand. This featherlight Kindle Paperwhite device is dust and water resistant, goes anywhere , and doesn't require bookshelves. I can browse the titles 15 at a time and I don't need to pull them off a shelf. Need to spend time in a Pandemic? Read a book.