Project Gutenberg but Better: Free Ebooks for Your Kindle, iPad, etc.

  Project Gutenberg is a longstanding project which has made thousands of ebooks available to readers, worldwide. There you’ll find more than 54,000 free ebooks, including much of the world’s great literature. Thousands of volunteers have worked on Project Gutenberg. They’ve proofread and digitized a wide-ranging collection of older classics whose copyrights have expired. But, while…

The Internet, Your Brain, and Your Time – Should You Worry?

The internet, some people (like Jonathan Franzen) believe, is ruining us. In particular, Franzen cites Jeff Bezos, Amazon and the rise of self-publishing and e-books as a dire threat to the ‘serious writer’ – an august group which, presumably, includes himself but excludes 

Find Time for March's Time Finder Favorites

Finding time to look back at March’s Time Finder Favorites is something we want to be sure to do before another April day passes by! And speaking of April days, it’s just the 5th and so far we’ve had two small, April snowstorms here in NH!  It brings to mind a passage from a Robert…

Find Time to Do It All With Seesmic Desktop 2

Finding time to manage and interact with your social networks just got a big boost from Seesmic with the release of their new Seesmic Desktop 2.  As they say in their introductory e-mail, “The inspiration to build SD2 came from the understanding that our users desired support of many different social services, more than just…

Finding Time to Start Your Project

This Friday we are sharing another adapted article from our Finding Time E-zine.  Today’s focus?  Getting started on a project. When faced with a new project, do you find yourself stuck before you begin? Whether you stall out or rush in, you’ll find these tips about preparation extremely helpful. You benefit in a number of…

Find Time with Scribd on Cyber Monday!

I’ve been meaning to write about Scribd since I first read about it in an article by Brad Stone in the NY Times last May. Scribd appears to be a very flexible tool that will allow you to upload documents, articles, e-books … you name it … to the web where they can be shared…