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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; E-Books, E-Reading, E-Publishing</title>
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		<title>Using a Kindle: Some First Impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This is one of what will no doubt become a series on my experiences in using a Kindle 2. It's not a drum I want to beat often -- don't want it to become one of those "I have X but you don't, haha!" gloatfests. But it might be useful for people on the fence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buh-Bye, Book-Buying Guilt!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Missus has a refrigerator magnet which features a head-and-shoulders hand-tinted photo of a wealthy, hoity-toity society-matron sort of woman; the text alongside says, &#8220;&#8216;Frugal&#8217; is such an ugly word.&#8221; (Ha!) Like many people, I suppose, I have great ambivalence about acquiring ever more Stuff. Examined closely, expressions like Wow, that would be so cool! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Line Burners</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/line-burners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably encountered references to NaNoWriMo here, at least in the comments &#8212; the so-called &#8220;(Inter)National Novel Writing Month&#8221; of November. This project encourages people who want to write fiction to, well, do it; everyone who signs up agrees to try writing a complete 50,000-word novel over the course of the thirty days. (There&#8217;s no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can I Kindleize that Velveteen Rabbit For Ya?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most writing and reading households, The Missus and mine has books way in excess of the available bookshelf space. We&#8217;ve lived in this house for more than eight years now, yet still &#8212; still! &#8212; somewhere around six or eight cartons and big plastic tubs of books take up space in our (mercifully dry) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publisher Seeking Authors: The New Frontier</title>
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		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/09/publisher-seeking-authors-the-new-frontier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Dennis Cass Wants You to Be More Awesome site, in a thread about dispensing with the whole query-an-editor/agent process, member Paul Mikos pointed me to an experiment by publisher HarperCollins UK. The experiment goes by the name &#8220;authonomy&#8221; (a cute neologism I&#8217;m still trying to make up my mind about). From the authonomy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love and Laughter</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/07/love-and-laughter/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/07/love-and-laughter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I went into a soapbox-lecture rant, shall we say? (yes, let&#8217;s &#8212; rants seem to be another thing that&#8217;s done a lot), about some of the comments to a recent post on Nathan Bransford&#8217;s blog. At the end of every week, Bransford posts a &#8220;This Week in Publishing&#8221; entry summing up recent industry news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sing, Sing, Sing</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/06/sing-sing-sing/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/06/sing-sing-sing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benny Goodman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday is Father&#8217;s Day in the US. Last week, 20 years ago, my Dad died. I thought a fitting tribute to both of these occasions would be to post here a short story which was, in many ways, a story of my Dad (although none of the actual events described in it occurred to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Imprint of Books, One Life at a Time</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/06/the-imprint-of-books-one-life-at-a-time/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/06/the-imprint-of-books-one-life-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Editorial Ass blog is running a fascinating series of posts. Collectively referred to as &#8220;Celebrate Reading Month,&#8221; each post in the series is written by a guest blogger, each describing a book which had an impact on the blogger&#8217;s life, understanding of books, reading habits &#8212; whatever. MoonRat, who runs the blog, has made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinning the Herd</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/05/thinning-the-herd/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/05/thinning-the-herd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 12:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog known as Editorial Ass (which is short, of course, for &#8220;Assistant&#8221;) is written by an anonymous editor in NYC who identifies herself only as MoonRat. It&#8217;s linked over in the &#8220;Touchstones&#8221; category. A recent post there, on the surface, was stimulated by a lecture, which MR attended, given by one Jonathan Karp, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How It Was: Getting the Books</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/04/how-it-was-getting-the-books/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/04/how-it-was-getting-the-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know&#8230; I said, &#8220;In my next post on How It Was, I’ll include an excerpt from &#8216;Book 1: Spring.&#8217;&#8221; It&#8217;s coming. In the meantime, please check this page. It describes how I&#8217;m hoping to make the whole process of posting, downloading, and reading excerpts easier for both you and me. Eventually, it [...]]]></description>
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