No matter. Regardless of the manuscript word count or the working title (now changed), the stew is still in the pot ... and it smells delicious.
In other news -- gazoonga.com lives as well.
I just sort of forgot to turn it on..... heh
Oh well. On to other things:
I've been reading and re-reading a lot of things lately. Everything from Tarzan of the Apes to Moby Dick, from King's On Writing to Gardner's The Art of Fiction has bubbled up from the bottom of the deep pond that is made up of ideas and works I love to stir and sniff and taste (and have wanted to experience for a long time but never really got around to experiencing until now -- like Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu).
I've been stacking up books on my nightstand (some borrowed from co-workers
I do a lot of my e-book reading using my cell phone (Samsung Fascinate). It's convenient and I currently use only two proggies for this activity, though I could install more. The two I use are Aldiko and, of course, Amazon Kindle (mobile). I write 'of course' of the latter since, apparently, it's impossible to delete this little proggie unless you're a 12-year-old computer major in your junior year at MIT.
When I'm not using my cell phone to read my e-books, I'm using my Sony Reader. It's got a larger screen and I like the way the print looks on it. Still, after having used all three proggies extensively, I can say each has its merits and drawbacks.
With Aldiko and Kindle on my cell phone, reading is great. I can turn on the night-vision mode and read the print just the way I like it: white font on black background. I don't know, I guess it stuck with me from the eighties. For me, it just seems so much easier on the eyes when you're reading from a screen such as the one installed on my cell phone.
Another great thing I love about reading e-books on my cell phone is the fact I can hilight text, copy it to the clipboard, open up Wikipedia or Dictionary.com and paste whatever I want to look up directly into the search box. Wow! No need to sit by the encyclopedias in the library anymore, eh? Of course, the Kindle app has a larger store with more books available, but I keep wanting to use Aldiko for some reason. I'm not sure why, I just like the way it looks. Maybe I just resent the fact the Kindle app is basically being shoved down my throat?
At any rate, the big drawback about both these readers is that they don't give me the ability to hilight text and enter notes on the hilighted passages so that I can review the notes later and comment on my remarks. This is something easily accomplished with the Sony Reader, although, with this nice little reader, I don't have the ability to access the sites I mentioned above.
I think this might be available in newer readers -- maybe even a newer version of the Sony Reader. I haven't looked into it yet. I have the Daily Edition version and I know for a fact there's a newer model than mine out in the market already. I just don't remember much about it off the top of my head.
So, what I'm thinking of doing now -- at least at home -- is reading the book, say "Tarzan of the Apes" -- on the Sony Reader and just researching things (like, say, what sort of 'apes' was Burroughs thinking of when he described the apes that raised Tarzan?) by not being lazy and just Swyping whatever I want to research into the search box on the app installed on my phone.
It's still easier and more efficient than jotting something down and walking over to the OED or the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Do they actually still print those things?
