Joanna

For a long time, Kindle users were out of luck in getting library books on their devices. Joanna tells me that’s still the case in Canada, so you have my sympathies if you’re also outside the US, where ePub is your only option in Overdrive. If however, you are in the US, and your public […]

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Joanna and Paul have done their best books of 2014 articles, and I thought I should do one as well. This year I used Goodreads to track all of my reading, which made it easy to compile my list. I just sorted my 2014 list by 5 stars, something I give infrequently. Out of 220 […]

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Last year Joanna wrote an excellent guide to Evernote, and I’ve been a fan for years. I recently read Evernote for Dummies, through Scribd, and, although I didn’t learn much new from the book, it did inspire me to use Evernote in a new (to me) way. I’ve been telling clients for years that Evernote […]

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Joanna wrote an article a while back on wearables, and it got me thinking about buying a Fitbit. I’ve had it for about a month and a half now, and I’m quite fond of it. I opted for the Fitbit Zip, the one that doesn’t have a wrist band. Since I wasn’t sure how consistent [...]

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Because Joanna and I didn’t communicate well, you get two roundups this morning. Consider it a bonus for the last day of the year. Here’s the first. The second to come soon. Enjoy! Five Mistakes KILLING Self-Published Authors (Kristen Lamb’s Blog) When I began writing I was SO SURE agents would be fighting over my manuscript. Yeah. [...]

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Oh happy day! We’ve been cord cutters relying on Netflix for years, and yes, our son in college is one of those “digital moochers” that Joanna wrote about earlier this year. Unfortunately, my son, husband and I all have different tastes in movies, and Netflix offers me up some interesting suggestions. (No, I don’t want [...]

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