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Banned Books Week: the Last Week in Sept.

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DIGITAL READERS: BEWARE!: Jellybooks' code candy.js "is code embedded inside an ebook to track how users actually read" - and such data's being collected not only by Jellybooks but by "a growing list of others"

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In October 2014, I posted Lisa Tolliver On Air and Online: DIGITAL READERS: BEWARE! Adobe Digital Editions 4 Spies On Users (And They're Not the Only Ones) - Includes "Who's Reading Whom? (Be afraid. Be very afraid.)", a short horror story.

This next installment in the DIGITAL READERS: BEWARE! saga was prompted by Andrew Rhomberg's article in DBW, "What Code Is Revealing About Readers" (...

Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss, happy birthday to you!


(March 2, 1904-September 21)

“The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

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“Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff!”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!    

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LIBRARY STORIES: "The Library Policeman"

I can't think of Stephen King's novella, "The Library Policeman" (the third story in the 1990 collection Four Past Midnight ) without thinking of Gus Hasford's Library Book Theft Charges. Or vice versa. Copyright (c) Lisa Tolliver on Air and Online (a division of 360 Meridian, LLC). All Rights Reserved.

LIBRARY STORIES: Gus Hasford's Library Book Theft Charges

Are you, too, a fan of Gus Hasford's novels?
The Short-Timers (1979) ISBN 0-553-23945-7 The Phantom Blooper (1990) ISBN 0-553-05718-9 A Gypsy Good Time (1992) ISBN 0-671-72917-9Or of the award-winning film Full Metal Jacket (1987), based on Hasford's first book?

Wikipedia: Gustav haford - First novel and filmIn 1978, Hasford attended the Milford Writer's Workshop and met veteran science fiction author Frederik Pohl, who was then an editor at Bantam Books. At Pohl's suggestion, Hasford submitted The ...

30 Funniest Cartoons About eBooks and Digital Reading

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On Craigslist: this lazy-a$$ student's ad emphasizes one dangerous flaw in online education

I saw the following ad on Craigslist.  It's not unlike others I've seen, some of which promise to pay a stooge to write one's papers.  Is it not bad enough that so many colleges have dumbed...



Roundups of Lisa Tolliver's radio broadcasts and random rants, raves, ramblings and reviews.

On TV: Con Air

I'm watching while I work (at home). Here's what's on TV: Con Air. This flick earned both an Academy Award nomination AND a Golden Raspberry Award! (Go figure.)  This best-of-the-good and...



Roundups of Lisa Tolliver's radio broadcasts and random rants, raves, ramblings and reviews.

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John Grisham






What I'm (re-)reading now:  The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by NYT Bestselling author, John Grisham [July 12, 2009 Paperback].  Read a...



Roundups of Lisa Tolliver's radio broadcasts and random rants, raves, ramblings and reviews.

What I'm reading now: Gus Hasford's THE PHANTOM BLOOPER (1990)

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Happy New Year!

Befitting a Veterans History Project Official Founding Partner/New York, I re-screened Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan this holiday weekend and then...



Roundups of Lisa Tolliver's radio broadcasts and random rants, raves, ramblings and reviews.