Setting up and Maintaining Your Home Library. Dear reader, Like everyone, you will probably have paper books in your home, some of them old and precious. As a collector of rare books, your goal is to keep your collection in optimum shape. You’re careful with dust jackets and protect fragile books with clamshell cases. Even the way you shelve your… (more…)
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Paperback writer
Dear reader, You may all be familiar with the song of the Beatles, which bears the same name as this post does. Why did I pick this one? Exactly. You are too smart to fool; it is about paper(back) books. Paper. Upto now only a few of my books are available on paper, and I am seriously wondering if there… (more…)
Hilda – Dragon Master on Amazon
Yes, dear reader, you see correctly. The e-publishing machine seems to run like clockwork. Never before has a new book of Hilda the Wicked Witch appeared on Smashwords and Amazon on the same day. Today it happened. You can find the 8th book of the witch in all the Amazon stores. Follow this link to see the book on amazon.com.… (more…)
Hilda’s 8th book. Dragon Master.
Dear reader and perhaps Hilda fan, Here is the good news: book 8, Dragon Master, is now available at Smashwords. It will soon be available on Amazon as well, but the reviewing team there takes its time. I will of course post an announcement here when the book on Amazon is ready. Contrary to the previous 7 books in the… (more…)
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The art of words
How many words are there, dear reader (and dear writer as well)? As we know, there are lots of words. Enough words to fill encyclopedias and enormous libraries. Yet most of these words are the same ones, used over and over again, merely placed in a different sequence. There is a finite number of words, even when their number grows… (more…)
Paper books, electronic books
Paper books are the best. The feel of the paper, the smell of the ink, the weight of the book. E-books are the best. My e-reader is so convenient, I can take so many book with me in one fine small device and they are ever present. Yes, the fight is on, since a long time. Reports from Amazon.com show… (more…)
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