http://www.mcelhearn.com Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:46:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/29/take-control-books-50-off-sale/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/29/take-control-books-50-off-sale/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:44:55 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1195 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/29/take-control-books-50-off-sale/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/29/kindle-prices-plummet/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/29/kindle-prices-plummet/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:40:43 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1193 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/29/kindle-prices-plummet/feed/ 1 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/23/library-of-america-launches-new-blog/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/23/library-of-america-launches-new-blog/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:49:34 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1186 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/23/library-of-america-launches-new-blog/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/15/books-i-want-journals-and-miscellaneous-notebooks-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/15/books-i-want-journals-and-miscellaneous-notebooks-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:45:29 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1178 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/15/books-i-want-journals-and-miscellaneous-notebooks-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/new-kindle-with-better-contrast-third-time-lucky/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/new-kindle-with-better-contrast-third-time-lucky/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:09:03 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1161 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/new-kindle-with-better-contrast-third-time-lucky/feed/ 1 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:07:24 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1156 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/07/01/book-notes-hitch-22-by-christopher-hitchens/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/25/hear-me-discuss-ebooks-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/25/hear-me-discuss-ebooks-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:05:24 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1150 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/25/hear-me-discuss-ebooks-on-the-tech-night-owl-live/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/22/apple-updates-ibooks-e-reader-app/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/22/apple-updates-ibooks-e-reader-app/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:59:58 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1147 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/22/apple-updates-ibooks-e-reader-app/feed/ 2 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/16/happy-bloomsday-to-all/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/16/happy-bloomsday-to-all/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:48:00 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/wordpress/?p=198

Once again it's Bloomsday, the 16th of June, the day on which James Joyce's Ulysses takes place. If you aren't familiar with this great work of the early twentieth century, it tells the tale of a modern-day Ulysses (Leopold Bloom) as he wanders the streets of Dublin on June 16, 1904. Closely modeled on the Odyssey, Ulysses is a landmark in modernist literature.

Every year on this day, around the world, people read Ulysses alone or in groups, to themselves or out loud, in performance or simply in sitting on a couch. For this year's Bloomsday, allow me to recommend a novel way to experience the book. The recently released unabridged audiobook of Ulysses, from Naxos, is a gem. With musical interludes and sound effects, and excellent reading by Jim Norton (and Marcella Riordan for the final chapter, the soliloquy by Molly Bloom), this reading brings the work to life in unexpected ways. At over 27 hours, you won't be able to listen to the entire book in one day (the novel takes place over a period of "only" 18 hours), but you'll be drawn into the story in ways you did not expect.]]> http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/16/happy-bloomsday-to-all/feed/ 0 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/12/are-ibooks-books-complete-i-bought-one-missing-nearly-100-pages/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/12/are-ibooks-books-complete-i-bought-one-missing-nearly-100-pages/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:24:40 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1125 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/12/are-ibooks-books-complete-i-bought-one-missing-nearly-100-pages/feed/ 11 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/07/ulysses-gets-censored-again-this-time-by-apple/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/07/ulysses-gets-censored-again-this-time-by-apple/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:55:57 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1117 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/06/07/ulysses-gets-censored-again-this-time-by-apple/feed/ 2 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/05/04/happy-birthday-finnegans-wake/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/05/04/happy-birthday-finnegans-wake/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 16:32:14 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1075 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/05/04/happy-birthday-finnegans-wake/feed/ 2 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/11/amazons-kindle-app-for-ipad-vs-apples-ibooks/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/11/amazons-kindle-app-for-ipad-vs-apples-ibooks/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:04:45 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1045 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/04/11/amazons-kindle-app-for-ipad-vs-apples-ibooks/feed/ 8 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/18/is-it-possible-to-rip-ebooks/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/18/is-it-possible-to-rip-ebooks/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:44:57 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/18/is-it-possible-to-rip-ebooks/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/18/is-it-possible-to-rip-ebooks/feed/ 8 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/17/does-penguin-care-about-ebooks/ http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/17/does-penguin-care-about-ebooks/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:19:45 +0000 kirk http://www.mcelhearn.com/?p=1002 http://www.mcelhearn.com/2010/03/17/does-penguin-care-about-ebooks/feed/ 6