Inspirational Technology

New Free eBooks from Microsoft

Microsoft has posted the next batch of free eBooks in their summer reading program. Last week the titles weren't too interesting, but this time around it includes The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Flying Book by David Blatner and The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs. All three look pretty interesting, and the Douglas Adams is a book I've wanted to read for, well ... for years. I've picked it up in the bookstore many times, just never managed to make it to the counter with it for some reason.

Right now I'm still in the process of reading A Short History of Nearly Everything. This was part of the first weeks promotion. It's turning out to be really interesting, but kind of slow going. It's a very good book and I definitely recommend it. It's just not the riveting kind of thing you would get with a fiction novel so it's not that kind of suspenseful page turner.

For the last year or so I hadn't been reading nearly as much as I used to, now with eBooks I'm starting to get back to my old ways. In fact I now actually prefer eBooks to paper books. Even with the limitations (some still significant).