Palm Reading

I have dug up the relic from my college days, the Palm III mainly because I felt like doing some reading of the public domain stuff on the awesome Project Gutenberg. The experience (which I tried before) has been great so far. I am using The Weasel Reader because of its use of the zlib compression algorithm, Trying to stretch those 2MB as far as they will go.

It has been great. I am almost finished reading Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow and the experience has been great. First it’s a pretty good story, that is available under a creative commons license and I was able to read it very fast, because for some reason I was able to take my palm and read a few pages in lots of places that ordinarily would have warranted a raised eyebrow and some somewhat insulted/joking remarks about my being bored with their company if I was reading or even carrying a dead-tree book.

I’d recommend reading that book, or buying me a newer slightly smaller, with better resolution and more memory screen palm :) , or checking out A Place So Foreign and Eight More also by Doctorow, which I bought and recently finished. Some good stuff in there. I think he released some of those short stories under a creative commons license as well, link.

2 Responses to “Palm Reading”

  1. I started We the Media by Dan Gillmor, (Book Site) on Saturday and am about 11% through I don’t know what page that is, but I am basically into chapter 2 at this point. And I am diggin’ it so far.

  2. [...] I’ve had it and some other Doctorow stuff on my to read list, since I had read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom on my Palm a while back and really enjoyed it. In fact I enjoyed it so much I later purchased A Place So Foreign and Eight More. Reading Doctorow and looking at his blog and other ventures has led me to pick up some Charles Stross and opened my eyes to a handful of contemporary SciFi writers that do a great job of slinging words. This is good, because I have mostly run out of Heinlein stories to read, but not my desire to continue reading good science fiction. [...]