Here's another geeky webcomic railing against e-books. Should it strike me as odd that the hardcore nerds are anti? I'll bet it strikes Amazon that way.
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03/12/2009 10:10 #48025
Gutenberg FTWHere's another geeky webcomic railing against e-books. Should it strike me as odd that the hardcore nerds are anti? I'll bet it strikes Amazon that way.
03/09/2009 18:05 #47999
I Hear They Shine ThroughI've been giving color a lot of thought recently.
Color can become a part of something's identity. That particular orange on the binding of a Penguin book, or the blue -- dare I say cerulean? -- of a box from Tiffany. Immediately recognizable.
I would love for Greenfern to have a particular color associated with it, and I'd love for it not to be green.
On a related note, have you been to colourlovers.com? Am I sadly behind the curve on this one?
I put together a putative site for the GF last week. I headed over to one of those free website deals and just used one of their templates. It just happened to be greenish. Maybe it's fate.
Color can become a part of something's identity. That particular orange on the binding of a Penguin book, or the blue -- dare I say cerulean? -- of a box from Tiffany. Immediately recognizable.
I would love for Greenfern to have a particular color associated with it, and I'd love for it not to be green.
On a related note, have you been to colourlovers.com? Am I sadly behind the curve on this one?
I put together a putative site for the GF last week. I headed over to one of those free website deals and just used one of their templates. It just happened to be greenish. Maybe it's fate.
tinypliny - 03/15/09 19:12
I love colourlovers.com!! I am a somewhat lurky colourlover though.
I love colourlovers.com!! I am a somewhat lurky colourlover though.
drew - 03/10/09 08:46
wordpress is a great way to go for free web stuff.
wordpress is a great way to go for free web stuff.
greenfernmag - 03/09/09 23:23
- 1 - Powder blues was the color of our first cover, and it did look pretty sweet.
- 2 - Yeah those ads are U-gly. Just using webs.com until I figure out exaclty what we want the web presence to be,
paul - 03/09/09 23:19
Sorry but the crush center adverts make me want to puke. Can you get rid of them or do they come with whatever package you signed up for.
Sorry but the crush center adverts make me want to puke. Can you get rid of them or do they come with whatever package you signed up for.
joshua - 03/09/09 19:37
I vote for powder blue. On a rack it would stand out and not be as painfully obnoxious as say, Big Bird yellow or any color associated with hazards of any kind. Also, I'm extraordinarily biased and prefer the color blue (or black) almost every time. I might as well be honest! I think that would look kind of slick on the folding edge of a magazine.
I vote for powder blue. On a rack it would stand out and not be as painfully obnoxious as say, Big Bird yellow or any color associated with hazards of any kind. Also, I'm extraordinarily biased and prefer the color blue (or black) almost every time. I might as well be honest! I think that would look kind of slick on the folding edge of a magazine.
03/02/2009 17:45 #47925
bufblopofoOh yes, my friends, it's back. Prepare yourself for Buffalo Blog-Posting Fortnight 2009.
02/28/2009 15:54 #47909
Fear Not, Bibliophiles
Thank you, xkcd, for summing it up so succinctly. I just can't get behind the e-book thing, but haven't had the guts to say they're for chumps.
Flipping pages, browsing bookracks, dog-earing your place -- these are too much a part of our society to be given up all that quickly. There's more to a text than the text; holding an actual, palpable volume in one's hands is part of the pleasure.
An unsurprising sentiment from someone who recently started a paper magazine, I'm sure, but nonetheless.
jenks - 03/03/09 17:49
yeah i am usually the first to covet any new gadget, but the kindle... I'm totally not interested.
have you seen the pulse smartpen though? This thing is awesome-
:::link:::
yeah i am usually the first to covet any new gadget, but the kindle... I'm totally not interested.
have you seen the pulse smartpen though? This thing is awesome-
:::link:::
heidi - 02/28/09 23:25
It should read "don't panic."
It should read "don't panic."
james - 02/28/09 19:58
I am a bibliophile and a book pack rat. I love my books. But I am not so sure that books are here to stay. Academic journals and news media is almost entirely electronic these days. Just ten years ago print was still the medium of choice for both. So much of our media is now text on the internet, books are just a matter of time.
However, with books I plan on being a luddite.
I am a bibliophile and a book pack rat. I love my books. But I am not so sure that books are here to stay. Academic journals and news media is almost entirely electronic these days. Just ten years ago print was still the medium of choice for both. So much of our media is now text on the internet, books are just a matter of time.
However, with books I plan on being a luddite.
02/16/2009 19:34 #47764
FYI - More Print Shop CoolnessGot an email from the WNYBAC folks the other day. They've got another demo on the way, and I strongly recommend it.
"Wednesday Feb. 25th (6-8 pm) we will be having our Punching & Cutting machines demonstration which was previously postponed due to a snow storm.
Paper Drills, grommet machines, corner rounders, and a trusty Guillotine are but a few of the resources we have to make paper yield to your will. Some of these machines will always require WNYBAC staff assistance, but many others are just fun to put holes in paper. Get a tour of these tools that can help put that final touch on your book edition project.
Just RSVP to info@wnybookarts.org if you wish to join us."
James -- nice.
Theli -- Oh, I agree. I mean, the guy named his online persona after a pre-industrial astronomer, fer chrissakes. I assume, though, that Amazon is hoping that the geekier folks will jump on the new tech. They won't. Geeks like to collect stuff, and you can't leaves piles of ebooks laying around your apartment for your girlfriend to yell at you about.
joshua -- I did. Thanks for the headsup! I've tried twice contact the organizers to no avail. I may just show up with a table.
I have a steampunk version of a kindle.
Actually, I just glued some Auden to an oil burner.
"a very" Gah.
The one author of the strip is actually very a literary guy.
Just because you're a hardcore nerd, that doesn't mean that you think that all things technological are superior. Nerdom includes things like comic books, painting physical miniatures, a huge variety of boardgames, and, of course, novels of all types. Not to mention all those nerds that love things anachronistic, ancient, and historic. (Steampunk, anyone?)
And while there are plenty of "nerds" that fit any given stereotype, there are also a great many that just do not.
This has been an estrip public service announcement. Thank you.
Yesterday morning I grabbed a little ad card for an upcoming small book fair. Know anything about it?