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Trivial Posts #18: A Block Of Time, A Book Of Delights, And A Picture Of You

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Since the last weekly newsletter I’ve been to San Francisco… and made it home again. Lots to cover this week, so without too much hesitation… What Have I Been Up To? Every time I decide to fly to America, something ‘big’ happens back home, and this week was no exception. A week of catching up with old friends and new companies in Silicon Valley clashed with the BBC saying something about how the UK Song for Europe was going to be selected. My thoughts on that are here (and you can catch up on all the continent’s Eurovision news through

The £80 Android Tablet

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The Nook HD, now available for just £79 for 8GB in the UK, is a nice piece of kit. It’s not cutting edge, but it does the job, its comfortable to read on for long periods, and with the inclusion go Google Play, you can be sneaky and install the Kindle app if you’re locked in to Bezos’ ecosystem. It is possible to use the Nook HD and Nook HD+ as purely Kindle readers, which does feel a touch subversive as a user, and I did wonder how sales from the Barnes and Noble store have performed since the opening

Hugh Walters, copyright, and the hole in 20th century literature

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I would love to read the books of Hugh Walters again – a science fiction writer I remember reading when I eight or nine years old. Unfortunately I have only two books on my shelf, and to buy any others I would be looking at hundreds of pounds because they are out of print and not in favour with anyone. You’d think with Kindle and eBooks this would be easily solved but no. Multiply my issue by millions of people, and you see that the ‘hole’ in mid-20th century literature that copyright has created (The Hole In Our Collective Memory

The second class Kindles arrive in the UK

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Amazon’s Android offshoot, the Kindle Fire debuted in the US this week. Not surprisingly, the big-ticket items such as the 8.9 inch Kindle Fire HD, and the bundled version with 4G LTE support will stay inside US borders, but we are getting the ‘improved’ Kindle Fire and the 7″ Kindle Fire HD… By getting I mean everyone places their order now, and delivery will be made on October 25th, which gives Amazon enough lead time to build as many that are needed and not have to worry about a warehouse full of Kindles sitting around doing nothing. Amazon are clearly

“Eurovision: Beyond the Sequins” almost tops the Amazon Kindle music charts!

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ESC Insight’s Ewan Spence is sitting nicely behind “Queen: The Illustrated Lyrics” in the Amazon Kindle charts with his book “Eurovision: Beyond the Sequins”. Pick up your copy before the show starts at Saturday 9pm CET! Running from the end of Dusseldorf 2011 with the victory of ‘Running Scared’ to the start of Baku 2012, ‘Eurovision: Beyond the Sequins’ looks in-depth at Europe’s favourite TV Show, as well as following Ewan Spence’s travels across Europe to visit the National Finals of Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as the preview parties across the continent. Ewan Spence looks beyond the sequins,