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Ebook Piracy and the Libraries of the Future
Image: Sarah Pinault. Toby’s first visit to the library. My husband has been lucky since acquiring his iPhone. He was looking for a book to read to test out the reader function, saw a commercial for A...
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Bio of Nobel Prize Winner Barbara McClintock Free on Kindle This Weekend
Geneticist Barbara McClintock, whose birthday we GeekMom types celebrate on June 16, won a Nobel Prize in 1983 for her discovery (decades earlier) that small pieces of DNA can move from one place to...
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A One-Stop List for Geek-Friendly Cyber Monday Deals
There are a lot of deals to sift through today–who has the time? So we’ve done a little sorting for you to make your Cyber Monday shopping go a little more smoothly. Find another great deal? Leave it...
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Caution! Get All the Facts Before You Get Your eReader!
Reading Time: 2 minutesPhoto: Amazon As the holiday season approaches, and you make the list of all the new tech gadgets you’d like to find under the tree, let me offer one suggestion. Do the research...
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Cozying Up To Kindle
Reading Time: 2 minutesImage re-mix by L. Weldon I adapt slowly to technological change. That’s an understatement. The first time I drove past a guy who was engaged in a lively conversation despite no...
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Tips for Using Your New Kindle
Reading Time: 3 minutesI noticed from Facebook and Twitter posts over the last week that a lot of my friends got Kindles for Christmas. And so naturally, they were all looking to the veteran owners for...
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The End of Borders
Reading Time: 2 minutesImage: Borders.com It has been buzzing all over the web that Borders is going to be closing the rest of their stores and liquidating all of their assets. I’ve read that the...
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Burden of Blood by Wenona Hulsey – A Modern Fantasy Tale
Reading Time: 1 minuteImage: Goodreads.com Burden of Blood by Wenona Hulsey is a fast paced modern fantasy. Police officer Nicole Keenan is just trying to lead a normal life in a small southern town...
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The Postmortal by Drew Magary – A Pre-Apocalypse Tale
Reading Time: 1 minuteImage: us.penguingroup.com The Postmortal by Drew Magary is a cautionary tale of what could be in store for the world if some clever scientist is able to create a cure for aging...
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Library eBooks Coming Soon to a Kindle Near You
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast summer I wrestled mightily with the biggest question of the year: Kindle or Nook? Ultimately, I went with a Kindle because I do a lot of book reviewing, and I knew I’d be...
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Amazon Unveils The Kindle Fire, Complete With Geek Content, And Three New...
Reading Time: 3 minutesImage credit: Amazon.com This morning Amazon officially announced its much-awaited Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire. The big news is that at $199, it’s half the price of the...
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OGIO Manhattan Bag Review
Reading Time: 2 minutesOgio Brooklyn Bag Image: Dakster Sullivan Bags are one of my geeky pleasures. Lately, I’ve been checking out the Ogio: Brooklyn. It’s a simple messenger bag and, thanks to my...
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Life Geekery Tablet Covers
Reading Time: 2 minutesLife Geekery, used with permission I stumbled across Life Geekery’s shop a few months ago when I was searching Etsy for Harry Potter goodies (as one does). I wasn’t even looking...
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Clinging to Antiquated Tech
Reading Time: 4 minutesImage: Sarah Pinault I’m a big fan of new technology. I like everything to have a touch screen, and I like it to take up as little physical space as possible. I am accustomed...
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Late to the Game: ‘Elder Sign’
Reading Time: 5 minutesElder Sign © Fantasy Flight Games Elder Sign is a cooperative dice-rolling game based on the Cthulhu Mythos in which you and your fellow players work together as a team of...
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Between the Bookends – August 2015
Reading Time: 5 minutesBetween the Bookends © Sophie Brown This month the GeekMoms dove deeply into the Chris Carter-verse with books featuring both The X-Files and Millennium, fallen in love again...
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Reading Time: 1 minuteI’ve been keeping an eye on Amazon for special deals, particularly on cool but not-too-expensive gifts for the four minions and spotted this one today. Amazon Kindle 6″ Glare-Free...
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