So I tend to keep an eye on interesting things in the Ruby self-published technical book space. This isn’t exactly recent, but I did want to mention and endorse Avdi Grimm’s [Exceptional Ruby](http://www.exceptionalruby.com). This is exactly the kind of thing that should be happening in the self-publishing space. It’s a...

I've been doing a lot more reading on eBooks since I got the iPad. For the most part, I really like it. I've been using three different eReader programs: Apple's iBooks, the Amazon Kindle, and the Barnes & Noble Nook. You'd think that an eReader would be basically similar between...