This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
Blindsight, by Chris Colin. The Atavist, 2011. (Kindle Single/ Atavist App / Nook / iBook)
Reviewed by Annalee Newitz
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This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
February 22, 2012
By John Timmer
It’s easy to forget that it’s only been five years since Sony and Amazon first started targeting consumers with dedicated eReading hardware. Over the past few years, the painfully slow eInk screens have gotten much faster, while the hardware itself received a touch interface, active color screens, and is now facing tough competition from tablets that let users do a whole lot more than read. The rapid pace of change has pushed authors, publishers, and content distributors into a period of experimentation, compelling many to try new means of displaying and distributing their works.
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
February 21, 2012
The Elements, by Theodore Gray, Touch Press Publishing, 2010 Itunes for Ipad
Reviewed by Deborah Blum
This post was originally published in “Download the Universe,” a multi-author blog about science ebooks edited by Carl Zimmer.
January 28, 2012
By Carl Zimmer
If you are curious about the world–about its galaxies, its clouds, its quarks, its crickets–then you probably own at least a few books about science. Or you have a lot. The book–by which I mean bound sheets of paper marked by moveable type–is one of the best devices for storing and retrieving information about science. It is also the kind of device we can fall in love with. On my own shelves, I have new books that are bringing me up to date on genome biology and dark matter, as well as dinged-up old books, such as a paperback edition of The Origin of Species, Stephen Jay Gould’s The Panda’s Thumb, and The Encyclopedia of Plagues and Pestilence. We dip back into old books, or reread them in full, and they thus keep us company through our time on this planet.
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