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Sasha Grey booksigning in Guadalajara

Every year the second biggest book faire in the world takes place in Guadalajara, called International Book Fair, or in spanish “Feria Internacional del Libro”. This year I attended for a couple hours, since my bookshelf has several unread books still, I was not looking to buy any new ones. Sasha Grey, a famous actress, […]

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Digital rights Law & Freedom

How Orwell’s 1984 novel is very accurate for 2013

George Orwell published his dystopian novel 1984 in the year 1949 guessing a scary version of what the society might be in the future. His predictions have become so accurate to today’s world that we can almost say that if he was trying to predict the future, he only missed by some decades. Big Brother […]

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An update on my take on ebooks and readers

On the first days of February, after many considerations given my past experience, I decided to bite the bullet and get a Kindle. I got the wifi-only paperwhite edition with ads for the economic price of $118 USD. I had the opportunity to buy it directly at a BestBuy store since I was in Texas […]

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New media reading habits on tablets and ebook readers

With the latest releases of ebook readers and tablet devices (iPad, xoom, galaxy tab, etc) reading habits are changing from paper based to digital in a faster pace than before. I’ve been using my Samsung Galaxy Tab for reading a lot more. I enjoy more reading my social media updates (Twitter, Google+, Facebook) on this […]