TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
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Manybooks has great RSS feeds
Saturday, October 11th, 2008By Paul Biba
How to find what books to read? That’s always a problem. Well, the Manybooks site has an excellent aid to help solve this problem.
If you go to the site and, over on the right, click on RSS feeds, and then click on New Titles Sorted by Category, you will be taken to a page with 56 different categories of books. Each one of these links is an RSS feed for that category. Your reader, I use Bloglines, will pop up a feed whenever a new book is added to that category. It works like a charm.
What I won’t miss. Not e-book related!
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008By Paul Biba
We have just recovered from three days without power after the huge windstorms that rocked New Jersey over the weekend. This meant no computer and I kept my iPhone use to a minimum as I had no easy way to recharge it. (Also meant no heat, lights, water, bathrooms, etc. - not a pleasant time).
When the power came back I booted up and went to Bloglines and found, of course, a huge number of RSS feeds to go through. I have 130 feeds in Bloglines and that’s a lot to check if I’ve been off the net for a while. I had the same problem when I came back from California after a 5 day vacation.
I found that in both instances I only ended up checking a few favorite feeds and then marked all the others as read. Without any prompting from a list I found that I checked the same feeds both times, so I thought I would share them with you as they seem to be my favorites. I hope you find some of them of interest:
Bookofjoe
Ars Technica
Laptop Mag
MobileRead
Mobile Tech Review
Palm-Mac
TeleRead
The Unofficial Apple Weblog
The Gadgeteer
Dans Data
Peter Watts’ Blog
How to Spot a Psychopath
Ilium’s PDA Software Deal of the Day: Ewallet/Listpro for $10; Newsbreak for $5
Thursday, June 7th, 2007By Robert Nagle
(June 7 Update: Today’s special is $10 on ewallet and Listpro; $5 on Newsbreak RSS Reader for PDA. I strongly recommend Ewallet and Listpro–I haven’t yet tried Newsbreak. The great thing about both ewallet and Listpro is that it’s relatively easy to sync both with PCs–My expectation is that the special will be valid for only today).
From Aximsite, I see that Ilium, maker of high quality software for PDA/pocket PC devices, is offering some software specials to 
celebrate its 10th anniversary.
Today’s special is listed on this page. It’s for the Newsbreak RSS Reader software (list price at $19, compared to today’s $5). I use and love both eWallet (personal password keeper) and ListPro (list + checklist) creator. Apparently the site discounted prices for eWallet and ListPro in the last few days, and hopefully this will be repeated. (Normally the software has 30 day trials periods.)
Now that Dell has stopped selling Axims, the people who run Aximsite branched off into another portalsite called mobilitysite.com . It looks as if they haven’t set up their forums on the new site yet, but that should happen soon.
