Book 19 was a first. It was the first e-book I’ve read from start to end! I did my dissertation on e-books and my conclusion was that if the readers became better they’d probably be successful. I reckon the readers etc. are improving and I found it easy to read this one on my netbook …
Category Archive: Books
Mar
06
Mar
05
Superhero Origins
I’m on a bit of a Graphic Novel kick just now and as I stumbled around the internet I came across this great t-shirt design over on Threadless – “How to become Super Vol. II” (You can catch Vol 1 here ).
Mar
03
Why real books are best…
…because when I’m reading and I relax if I tip the screen the stupid thing rotates 90 degrees. – S6 pupil to explain why he was taking out the physical book of an ebook he already had.
Mar
03
Books 17 and 18
Just as I was thinking I’d failed to read anything really great for the 100 Book Challenge two come along at once! 17. Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell I loved this book. It’s a kids book, it’s won awards and it is wonderful and totally deserving of any and all praise. The …
Feb
26
Books as Art
There seems to be loads of artists using books to create some amazing (and a few weird) creations. I’m particuallry loving Brian Dettmer For more inspiration have a look at this post from over at Inspiration Green. There is even a link to a You Tube video on there where Brian Dettmer talks about his …
Feb
19
Opening Lines
I sometimes am known to read a bit from a book to classes and, while often it’s a random passage, I do like a good beginning. I even do a lesson where pupils guess the genre of a series of books from their covers and then try and match the opening line. Handily enough someone …
Feb
19
Reading Challenge book 8 to 16
The latest batch of books I’ve read for the 100 books in a year reading challenge have been mainly graphic novels (hence the speed). After my recent public library trip I decided to set myself the challenge to actually read (or not) the pile and return them on time. I decided against reading Jennifer Connelly’s …
Feb
12
What does your favourite character look like?
This cracking portrait of Douglas Adams (and the gang) is by Tom Fowler. It’s from a fantastic collection of illustrations of literary characters and figures over at ‘Hey Oscar Wilde! It’s Clobberin’ Time!!!‘ Which is a brilliant name for any website and should be visited just for that.
Feb
02
Reading Challenge – Books 5,6 and 7
Don’t Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I’m a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter was purchase in the Second hand book shop in Orkney. I got it for two reasons 1) the title and 2) the stab wound in the back that indicated the book may have has as …
Jan
24
Book meets origami
Read Cursive Originally uploaded by Book Of Art How amazing is this? Books and Origami combined = seriously cool. Now if only I can find the time to try…
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