Tag Archives: Kobo

Read This: Digital Rights by Brent Knowles (Writers of the Future Winning Story)

The Assistant responsible for the primary thruster arrangement killed itself just ten days after Izzy arrived on the solar station. The panicked chatter of the other Assistants prevented them from continuing with their own duties. Horror, speculation, and worse of all, wonder, flowed across the station’s network. Izzy had to stop it. And it was …

October 10, 2011 – 6:45 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Read: The End of the Road by Brent Knowles

Wanderer looked down in satisfaction as he walked the old mountain road and saw the town below him. The stagnation of the human race was at an end and the survivors were now rebuilding. So ended the apocalypse. Wanderer continued towards this hotel from his past, an old, sprawling structure sitting high atop a cliff, …

October 9, 2011 – 7:14 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Read: The Prophet by Brent Knowles

The helicopter disappears beyond the horizon and Wanderer returns his attention to the laptop sitting awkwardly on his knees, sharing space with a can of cold beans. He digs into the beans with a plastic spork as he views the web site behind his dust-covered screen. A photo of a large man with wide, powerful …

October 8, 2011 – 2:10 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

iPad + Kobo + Instapaper = Awesome

Longtime readers might remember me ranting about not enjoying the reading experience at online magazines such as Strange Horizons or Clarkesworld. I very much dislike scrolling and prefer a paging experience. This is probably one of the reasons I really like reading eBooks on the iPad as all the book apps use a paging interface. …

December 18, 2010 – 8:36 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Brent's Toys, My Life | Tagged , , | Comments (0)