Book Bio

As of 1/1/10, the book bio will be moved to a new URL. The new location is:

http://bookbio.pbworks.com/

Our own Julie has taken over and done an excellent job in making it user friendly. You can still find our monthly book club selections along with genre recommendations and constantly suggested books/series.

Happy Reading!

eBook Readers

We've been getting a lot of questions on the Nest's Book Club lately about the differences between Amazon's Kindle, Sony's reader, and Barnes & Nobles' latest addition to the fray. There are others as well. Most of the NBCers (not all) prefer actual books to the electronic readers but they are becoming more and more popular with business travelers and others.

We have a site which compares the various features of the readers so that you may determine which one works best for you:

http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix


There was also one from the New York Times which gives the basic overview of the more popular ones available now:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/12/03/technology/personaltech/03ebook-chart1.html

Another question that we get often is about free books. Once you actually get an eReader, can you download free books and where do you find them? The answer depends on the device. Recent software patches allow the Kindle to download PDFs. Sony's product does allow for PDFs but you have to jump through hoops to get them to work or you can utilize their database. A couple of sites where you may find free books follow:

http://www.manybooks.net/

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Come on over to the Nest Book Club and let us know how they work. If you find other sites for free books, share them with us as well.

Happy Reading!

The Time Traveler's Wife Movie Trailer

I know by now we have all seen this trailer....how excited are you for this movie?!?




The movie opens August 14th. I can't wait!

July's Book Has Changed!

Just a reminder that we will be reading Summer Sisters by Judy Blume in July and the original July pick in December.

Lord of the Rings Read-Along!

Everyone is welcome to join this read-along, first time readers of the series, and people that have read it 50 times! I've never read it, I've always meant too, and I'm so glad to read it as a read-along.  

We'll start with The Hobbit, although if you don't want to read that one, feel free to join us 2 weeks later when we get started on The Fellowship of the Ring.

Here are the discussion dates for the books:

June 29th: The Hobbit

July 13th: The Fellowship of the Ring

July 27th: The Two Towers

August 10th: The Return of the King

Discussions will take place just like the standard NBC discussions, with open forum.  Feel free to ask questions, make comments, start posts, the whole sha-bang.

I'm looking forward to reading these together! 

SuBC Icons

Just wanted to get these up early so you can get them in your siggys. Once again I coerced my husband into making us something pretty. He found this picture on flickr in Joseph Robertson's photostream. 

 I posted two different sizes. 

In order to post this in your siggy, go to your profile on the Nest, click on Edit My Profile, and down at the bottom is a signature area.  

Insert this: <*img src="tinyurlhere" width="200" />  

Right click on whichever size you want to be in your siggy and choose "copy image address". 

Now, paste that address where it says "tinyurlhere" and delete the * from in front of img.   

All done. 

75 in 2009

A group of us all felt that 50 book in 2009 wasn't enough of a challenge but 100 was a little too far, so we decided to go for 75 books in 2009. Feel free to join us (and take the graphic if you'd like).