Tuesday I flew home from the Hawaiian island of Maui where the speed bumps I’m used to bouncing over in California have been turned into wider “speed tables” so you’ll heed the advice Hawaiians give Mainlanders: “Slow down, you’re on Maui now.” The next day, Barnes & Noble sent me an e-mail telling that I’m [...]
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Riding in a van along the dirt road that led from the Bear Track Inn to the Glacier Bay Lodge, I marveled at how the van driver could use his right thumb to scroll through apps and pull up information on his iPhone while using his left hand to steer the vehicle. Alas, on that [...]
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In previous posts I discussed options for downloading travel guidebooks to your iPhone from three on-line “bookstores”: Amazon.com (purveyor of Kindle Books), Apple (which sells iBooks), and Barnes & Noble (vendor of Nook books). But these are not the only available electronic guidebook outlets. Individual Author Guidebooks Fodor’s, Frommer’s, Lonely Planet, Moon, and other major [...]
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You thought your iPhone was primarily a telephone. Wrong. Then you decided it actually was mostly a computer. Right. Finally, you discovered it was not just a telephone and a computer, but also a travel guidebook, too. Right again — almost; it’s actually a guidebook library. Here are two popular places to buy electronic books [...]
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“Here, take my Kindle Reader outside and try it in the bright sunlight” said The Nice Lady in the doctor’s waiting room. So I did. And it was cool. With this gadget I could sit on the beach and read my favorite books — all 1,295,041 of them. “I need this” I told my wife. [...]
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Looking for a good book or an independent bookstore while you’re on the road? If you have an iPhone you’re in luck: Download the free IndieBound app from the iTunes App Store. Finding Bookstores Turn your iPhone’s “Location Services” to “On”, then click on “Store Finder” at the bottom of the screen to get a [...]
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