Cory Doctorow is a writer, and a blogger. On the day that his latest novel, Eastern Standard Tribe was published in the States (its not available here until the 1st of March) he also made it available on the internet in a variety of formats.
Much to my surprise, I then read it online. I’ve always been a firm fan of the paper book, but I slurped up EST on the screen of my iBook. Its helpful that the screen is so good, but reading what is essentially a web page was much easier than I had thought it would be. Though when I think about it I do spend most of my days reading documents of varying lengths on a computer screen so why not a book? Next up Project Gutenberg.
Oh, and the book is very good, highly recommended.
Just showing off with your iMac again, aren’t you? I wouldn’t mind so much, but your attempts to make me jealous are succeeding admirably.
Err, bring it along on Friday, would you? 😉