Hey, Hey it's that time of the day (or week, I should say), where I offer my list of selected articles, about random topics... Not all about books, not all about technology, just stuff I read and liked.  And before you think one of these articles is a hint about the future of this blog, no, I ain't calling it quits, I just found the article Why Bloggers Are Calling It Quits to be very interesting.  I too, pray that social media will mature, although I'm not holding my breath.   So sit back and enjoy some of these articles or your favourite book this weekend with your preferred choice of beverages.  Maybe you would like to try Sparkling Long Black.  Enjoy! 10 (Sci-Fi) Books You Pretend to Have Read (And Why You Should Really Read Them) 5 Completed Series to Read While You Wait for WINDS OF WINTER Major Publishers Might Revise eBook Pricing for Libraries How To Make Your Bookish LEGO Dreams Come True Why Bloggers Are Calling It Quits 

Welcome to the weekend, not sure about you, but this was a very long week for me, however according to the last article it should have flew by quickly for someone my age!  I started and finished listening to an audio book about Minecraft's business model and was impressed at how quickly I got through a non-fiction book, it normally takes me a lot longer to read. So I was interested to read the article My Job In 5 about the Commissioning Editor- Audio. I guess you all have heard the news about New Horizons probe reaching Pluto recently, I have, my 10 year old son has been talking about it and waiting for it to arrive for well over 5 years... He was so excited on the day it arrived we almost let him stay up to watch the live feed.  It looks like it will take many years to receive and go through all the data but the IO9 article about Pluto getting promoted is worth the read, for those interested. So sit back with your favourite beverage and enjoy!  I'm stickin...

The Lost Voyager: A Space Opera Novel (A Carson Mach Adventure) by A.C. Hadfield Description : The Voyager, a mining ship, goes missing… Its precious cargo could change the galaxy… Unless one man and his crew can find the lost Voyager. Carson Mach, a freelance rogue captain, and his crew are faced with a seemingly routine mission to find and rescue the Voyager, a missing mining ship in a remote system. Only he and his employers know what the lost ship carries in its cargo hold and the devastating consequences if it falls into the wrong hands. On arrival to the Noven system, the destination of the Voyager, Mach and his crew have three planets to explore, with no clues as to where the ship and its artifact might be. Their first stop reveals a terrifying new enemy has joined the search, raising the stakes considerably. If the new threat finds the cargo, it will place the entire galaxy in a perilous position from which it won’t recover. Mach and his crew must overcome impossible od...

What is so special about this week's RAW?  Under the normal random offerings I have placed the short listed nominations for the inaugural BooktubeSFF Awards .  I reported on this in the post ' 2015 Nebula Winners Plus Something New '. They will be conducting some read alongs for the nominations, so if you are interested you can follow along via their GoodReads group or Tumblr page. The Goodreads group: http://bit.ly/awardsgroup And the Tumblr page : http://booktubesffawards.tumblr.com So sit back with your favourite beverage, pick up one of the short listed books and enjoy your weekend.  I'd be interested in trying this beverage, The Admrial ,  it's a trappist!  Ha! AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 7.5% in the First Quarter of 2015 How Does Your Library Encourage Reading? What IS an Ebook? Escaping the new media cargo cult BooktubeSFF Awards - Short list announced.

Welcome to the weekend.  This week we saw the 50th anniversary of the publishing of  Frank Herbert’ s Dune .  Since then the franchise has grown somewhat, with all the spin offs, prequels and sequels.  I'm may be in the minority, but I enjoyed Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's  take of the prequels.  I would recommend you take a look at them, the writing style is quite different and more accessible than the originals.  Maybe you could read them with your favourite beverage, this week I am hoping to finish off Andy Weir's The Martian , while sipping on a tea called ' Ginger Iron Goddess '.  I bought it for the name alone, but it is surprisingly good, its an oolong and ginger mix. Enjoy! Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world Not fade away... how robots are preserving our old newspapers Why Libraries Are Even More Vital Than They Were Before the Digital Age Top 5 e-readers for Summer 2015 T...

The big news this week... we had to add an additional 'leap second' onto our clocks and it broke the internet. Did you notice it?  Nah, neither did I, but because I work in the I.T field I had to sit through the hysteria. Anyway, here is my offering of Random Articles across the Web for the weekend.  Enjoy reading through them with you favourite beverage.  I'm attending a 'Princess Dinosaur' party tomorrow morning so my caffeine intake will be hurried and large in order to get everything ready before all the 3 year olds arrive.  Have a good one! Leap Second Causes Sporadic Outages Across the Internet Why DRM Leaves Such a Sour Taste in My Mouth Amazon's new way of paying authors makes sense, and here's why Publishers Can Learn a Few Things from Programmers The Possibility in Blank Spaces ---