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January 26, 2010

When Geekdom Is Changed Forever

No, it's not an invasion of killer bees that you hear. It's the buzz around the Apple tablet, which could bridge laptops and hand-held devices while offering a great book-reading experience.

Barnes & Noble shares have bumped up on rumors that it will have a role in the new device.

The web is alive with fake sneak peaks.

How scared is Amazon? Will Apple dislodge the Kindle from its place of primacy?

International Business Times says the market is out there for the tablet, and it's big.

Will Apple, the ultimate purveyor of cool devices, hit another home run with an iTablet? T-Day is Wednesday.

Posted by Andy Le Peau at 1:41 PM

January 19, 2010

How to Read More

I'm a very slow reader. Always have been. And yet when people hear of the books I've read over the course of a year, they tell me they wish they could read more. I've found several reading strategies to be very helpful. Even if you employ just one of the ideas below, you can read a half dozen or more books in a year:

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January 11, 2010

Francis Schaeffer: Fifty Years after Time

Fifty years ago today, Time magazine published an article on Francis Schaeffer, who with his wife founded "one of the most unusual missions in the Western world." What made their ministry, nestled in the Swiss Alps, so different? They focused on intellectuals--artists, musicians, students, atheists, Jews, Catholics and Protestants--an eclectic mix of people that in 1960 the church tended to neglect.

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January 5, 2010

The 2010 Andys

Last week I posted what I read in 2009. Here's the best, the most, the worst and the biggest of what I read this past year:

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