You might consider me a recovered computer book author. I wrote loads of them from 1994 through the early part of this century, before I grew weary of churning out four or five titles a year for a pittance. I decided there had to be a better way to make a living, although I grant […]

Consider your choices. You can spend $489 for an Amazon Kindle DX (unless they suddenly drop the price), which does little more than read books and publications. You can spend $300-$400 for a netbook, which is a pathetic excuse for a note-book computer — or you can, beginning in March, buy a basic Apple iPad […]