Digital Textbooks At Last!

Yes, it's just a trial, but still...

If you Google my name, and if you're thinking of doing business with me I always assume you have, one of the things that comes up is a comment I made on an article about e-books a few years ago.

Basically I was saying that the most logical application I could conceive of for e-books was textbooks. Anyone who has watched a junior high student load 30lbs of books on their back understands why e-books would be the ideal textbook. The older the student, the truer this is since the books only get heavier.

Now, if they would only make e-books cheaper*...

*A friend loaned me her Kindle to play with. LOVE having 40+ books in my hand at once and being able to carry them all around in something lighter than a paperback. HATE how much Amazon is charging for a downloaded file AND the fact that there is no way to borrow books, library-style, for these things. Otherwise I'd beg Santa for one. Right now, if I got it I'd just be annoyed that I was too cheap to put any books on it.

Cool Site!

Learn something new and help save the world!

www.freerice.com/index.php

Learn some new words, prove to yourself how smart you are, and they donate rice through an international aid agency. How cool is that?

Homework

I forgot how much *work* homework and classes can be.

I'm taking an SEO and website marketing class (technically two classes they require you to take concurrently) to learn a little bit more about the non-content aspects of SEO for my site. I'm hoping to learn a little more about design/marketing, too, since while I love the site Kimmer did for me, it's starting to feel like time to change things up. Plus I do all my own updates and the tables are driving me NUTS!

This is work. Seriously, like WORK. Since it's all about learning to market myself, this qualifies as marketing time, right?