The Latest on Books!

I don't know that there is much more to say. Christopher Walken reads the children's classic 3 Little Pigs.

Audio Book Streams, Classic SciFi Television Streams and Nightly Streams of Classic Art Bell Broadcasts.  The streams consist of books consisting of Science Fiction, Classic TV Shows and Future Books.  Each night also includes streams of Art Bell broadcasts for Dreamland and Coast to Coast AM.

Shelfari is a cool free widget that allows users to install a virtual bookshelf with custom picks on most blogs and social networks (Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress.com and more). Appears to be owned by Amazon; check it out.

Everyone knows who Charles Dickens is—the famous English author responsible for such iconic novels as Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol and The Adventures of Oliver Twist. But what if this Victorian era novelist (who died in 1870) was resurrected into today's futuristic world? How would you explain the concept of a technology he's never seen before? Even something that perfectly fits his area of expertise—books? How would you elucidate the Amazon Kindle?

This application lets you send web pages to your Kindle instantly.

Note: Little Brother is available as a free ebook download.

KCRW is our local news station, and they also host a bunch of different podcasts that are usually pretty interesting. Last night they were talking about ereaders and the physical book and how the publishing industry is moving forward. It's a great discussion.

The best thing about Google eBooks, besides its 3 million titles? You can read the books on any device - from your iPhone to your Sony Reader. It doesn't currently support Amazon Kindle files, but you can download the books you buy as PDFs or ePub files and then convert them on your Kindle.

One of the perks of having a dedicated eReader is the sheer number of free ebooks available. You don't have to be stuck with the classics - many modern authors make some or all of their books available for free as promotional tools for their print books.