What's with the goofy caps on BoOkBoX?

Well, you might ask what's with that weird upper- and lower-case spelling of

B o O k B o X
b O o K b O x
b o o k B O X

anyway? It's all about the fact that as books turn into e-books and PDF's and a wide variety of forms, you start to notice how absolutely fluid and funky the digital content of our world is becoming.

Our letters and our lettres and our lEtTeRs are morphing before our very eyes. The alphabet seems to have a mind of its own, jumping up and down and flexing and texting and doing crazy things. Even a bOoK is not a "book" any more it seems to me.

So the uppity and downity of the bOoKbOX or BoOkBoX or bookBOX for me is all about how out of control the digital alpha-beta is these days. That's what Halley Tucker's BoOkBoX is about ... and rumor has it someone is building me an actual box to keep new books and e-books in, so I can pull a rabbit out of my hat (out of the Book Box) which I will be showing off soon.

Got any boxes of books around your house? I sure do!

David Berlind and Fritz Nelson on iPad vs. Kindle: InfoWeek

Very interesting to see how much has changed since this video was made only a year or so ago.

Notice the difference in prices from then to now! The iPad cost $720 according to Nelson and Berlind says, the Kindle "costs half that!" Not any more.

Who would you want to date? iPad or Kindle?

"I like to smell the paper"

Don't judge a Kindle without a cover!

Do you have a Kindle without a cover!? The poor thing! It's so skinny -- it needs some clothes! Get it a cute leather suit here, since many of them are on sale!

Help me out with The Help!

I know you power readers (like me) hear about a new movie coming out and you have either already read the book, or you jump in quickly and read or reread it and THEN ... make the big decision!

TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE the movie!

So help me out people who have read The Help and seen The Help -- shall I go see it? I finished it about 2 weeks ago.

Back from the Beach -- Happy Labor Day!

If you are an ebook reader, I'm sure you've seen many claims about how you can read at the beach -- or more precisely, how the Kindle is particularly good when it comes to reading at the beach.

I took both my iPad and my Kindle to Crane's Beach today and honestly, I didn't use either one.

Here's something you can do at the beach besides read -- you can swim! You can walk along the shore! You can get down in the sand, build up a castle and then watch the tide come in and wash it away.

I love my Kindle and truly, if I wanted to read today perhaps I would have opened it, but I really don't want to get SAND in it and when I'm at the beach with my family -- I try to resist the urge to read! Call me crazy.

Besides, the best place to read in the summer on a beautiful day is in a hammock or on a porch or (my favorite) up in a tree, and on this subject I agree with Amazon that the Kindle is perfect for that.