Manton Reece: Books

More on Kindle

I received a lot of feedback after I first wrote about the Kindle, so here's an update. I admit I'm still trying to understand the device; it has not immediately fallen into a spot in my routine the way the... Read More
January 11, 2008 07:20 AM

Kindle

All we do at VitalSource is e-books, from working with publishers on converting their content to our format, to managing the delivery of digital files and building the web-based infrastructure to support it, and finally to designing and coding the... Read More
November 26, 2007 09:10 AM

Five days, one paragraph

So I am 5 days or 700 characters in to my Story 140 experiment. Even though separation between each tweet is only implied, this is the end of the first paragraph, and on the web site I will be formatting... Read More
November 6, 2007 01:34 PM

Story 140

November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), but I'm way too busy to participate this year. (See my wrap-up post from 2005 for the last time I did it.) I would love to write something, though. Maybe I should consider... Read More
November 3, 2007 03:06 PM

NaNoWriMo 2006 attempt

Last year I participated in NaNoWriMo and successfully completed a 50,000 word novel in one month. It was a great experience, but when someone conducted an informal survey on 43things of who would be doing it again this year, I... Read More
November 9, 2006 09:48 AM

Da Vinci book, companion, and short film

The Da Vinci Code appealed to me and many others because it successfully mixes pieces of both art history and code breaking. The book captures in fiction the same fascination I had first cracking open Applied Cryptography. A few months... Read More
October 11, 2006 09:47 PM

Muybridge panoramas

In 1997 I walked into Half Priced Books to browse and left with a copy of Eadweard Muybridge and the Photographic Panorama of San Francisco, 1850-1880 for $5. I had been familiar with Muybridge through his series of photographs of... Read More
July 29, 2006 09:14 PM

Ingram

I don't blog much about VitalSource in this space, but I should. When I joined the company, it was to return to designing and building Mac software, with the potential for working on something meaningful (education tools) as a refreshing... Read More
July 18, 2006 10:23 AM

Set unreasonable deadlines

Damon and I have been discussing how time constraints can encourage creativity. I hinted at this in my first NaNoWriMo post, and it’s something I’ve been trying on other projects at work. Of course the concept is all through what... Read More
December 11, 2005 01:12 PM

50,136 words

As I posted about a few weeks ago, I decided to write a novel this month (National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo). I posted some of my progress on 43 Things, and I’m going to repost those entries here.... Read More
December 1, 2005 09:43 AM

Harry Potter book 4

So I finished rereading Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire in anticipation of the 4th film, which we just saw last night. (Thanks Damon for remembering to buy tickets a month early.) The film did a great job of... Read More
November 20, 2005 02:32 PM

10,302 words

A few weeks ago I heard about NaNoWriMo, a month-long “contest” to write a novel. You start November 1st, end at midnight November 30th, and if you’ve amassed 50,000 words, you win. Of course there are a lot of winners,... Read More
November 9, 2005 01:05 AM

Running Mac OS X

Congratulations to James Duncan Davidson, whose Running Mac OS X Panther has gone to press just in time for him to enjoy the holidays. I had the opportunity to review the book, and it's a solid achievement. He covers many... Read More
December 12, 2003 09:14 AM

Rustboy book

My copy of the Rustboy book arrived the other day. It is an incredible achievement, one of the best "making of" books I've seen. Like the upcoming film, it was put together by one guy, a Mac with off-the-shelf software,... Read More
October 13, 2003 09:09 AM

Fragments

I just received my copy of Fragments in the mail. It's a great collection of sketches and paintings by Pixar story artists Ronnie Del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa. (Pixar, for those not paying attention, is the new Disney --... Read More
September 12, 2003 02:37 PM

What would Dumbledore do?

I finished the fifth Harry Potter book last weekend. It was easily the best so far, and as usual a lot of fun to read. Here are two pictures from the bookstore party last month. I picked up my copy... Read More
July 16, 2003 05:56 PM