Typewriters
Friday, 30th May 2008. There are 6 Comments.
The BBC has an article on the virtues of typewriters.
“Have you ever tried to hack into my typewriter?” asks Frederick Forsyth. “It is very secure.”
Read it here.
A decade in British books
Monday, 26th May 2008. There are no comments.
The Guardian website has a great article from this week’s Observer, looking at the last ten years in British publishing. Read it here.
Clever linking for book bloggers
Friday, 2nd May 2008. There are 7 Comments.
One of the areas where I think even some of the best book blogs let themselves down is in their outbound links.
Nowadays, I tend to ignore links in book blogs. I’ve just come to expect them to lead to either the Wikipedia entry or a page on Amazon. It’s not that I disapprove of those websites; I just already know that they’re there. They’re easy to find, and if I want the information they carry, I can go straight to them and get it for myself.
When I’m reading somebody’s blog, I’m really looking for something new. This can be what’s written in the blog itself, of course, but the outbound links are part of that, and it’s really a shame how many blogs waste these opportunities to improve their readers’ experience. (more…)
