Media today
For some reason, the god/goddess of media decided that a number of things would arrive today. I got three books in addition to a History Channel 360 game (which is probably not great, but I want to try when I’m not playing Bully: Scholarship Edition or Burnout Paradise) and an old Bauhaus album I finally replaced (…one I owned originally on cassette).
The books:
1) A collection of short plays by Samuel Beckett: I never read Krapp’s Last Tape and recently–during a conversation about the Graveyard–someone mentioned that it was moving.
2) Game Design Workshop, by Tracy Fullerton, comes highly recommend. I’m working on two projects with Arkane: One with a very short development cycle, and one that’ll be much longer term. For the short-term project, I just hit a milestone that will make the Fullerton book very useful in terms of iterating. (Being at an independent, passion-driven company again is fantastic…Arkane is very agile, social and fun.)
3) Universal Principles of Design, also highly recommended, is a great book that the title describes perfectly.
A couple of years back, as part of my minimalist trend, I got rid of (I’d say) 4/5ths of my books. I like having some on the shelf, but I’d be happier if I could get them all in digi format, on a multi-use device that wasn’t just for reading (like the iTouch).
March 27th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Hey Harvey,
I’ve been thinking of picking one of these up lately:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665245739
I’m just not sure how many books are available.
Would save so much space and be awesome to use in bed.
March 27th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Might be great. But I can’t stomach yet another device. Especially if it only serves one purpose. This looks good, though, and so does the Kindle.
Already, I feel the tug of adding an iTouch to my Curve (phone). I haven’t even been able to do that. Keys, wallet, phone, MP3 player, ‘ebook’ reader, web browser…I’d look like Santa.
April 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I have exactly the same issue, and have settled with my iPhone. Once jailbroken, it has a Books app that reads eBooks. Also, the free iPhone PC Suite will convert documents to eBook form for reading. So with one device (with an admittedly slightly-too-big form factor), I have effectively combined the phone/MP3 Player/mobile email & browser/eBook reader problem. Pretty cool.
If you decide to go that way, I can talk you through the process. It has taken me a few weeks to get it perfected