Although I've been getting articles published and paid for since 1990, I still take writing courses. How come?
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Further thoughts on listening to documents on the Kindle Fire
I found listening to documents on the Kindle Fire very useful on the whole, so today I extended the practice by listening to a document while driving. Here’s what I found.
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in Reviews, Technology, Research
The Kindle Fire has a text-to-speech facility. I’ve been using it to listen to a book in the form of a pdf document. Here’s my evaluation of it.
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Attention, by Terry Freedman
News from the desktop: A room of your own, and the EU Copyright Directive
A couple of reports that will be of interest and useful to writers have just been published. These are the Royal Literary Society’s report ‘A Room Of My Own’, and the Society of Author’s plain English guide to the EU Copyright Directive.
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Authors and their rituals
in News & views, Research
Some recent research looks at writers’ rituals. Hearing about that made me reflect on my own.
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