Deirdre Saoirse Moen

I've now read more books in e-formats in the last year than I've read traditional paper books.

For years, since at least 2005, I've been reading technical books as e-books, but it was only last year I started reading a lot of biographies that way. I've been reading the major sf mags in e-format since 2007 at least.

Yesterday's discovery: ePub formats (from the multi-format option) work great on an iPad. Thus, I can have my electronic mags in iBooks. w00t!

Also, fictionwise is currently having a 40% off sale on the multi-format, which means back copies of the various sf/f mags (and non-sf/f mags) are also on sale. Don't have an iPad? There's a format that'll work for you and keep the clutter off the physical shelves.

Here's what I've found:

Interzone
F&SF
Analog
Asimov's

Also:
Ellery Queen's MM
Alfred Hitchcock's MM
Black Static Horror

For most of these, you can buy subscriptions, too.

Addition: On Spec is available through Zinio, which has readers for iPad, Mac, PC, and forthcoming reader on Android.

I can has iPad. I have a 16 G model.

I haven't gotten any writing done in the last couple of days, but that's because I've been busy working on getting my process set back up; it broke some time around my Snow Leopard install because I had mixed 32- and 64-bit binaries trying to compete.

This involved:

1) unscrewing up my install of macports
2) updating all my ruby stuff
3) researching what I might want to write with on the iPad.

On #3, I'm not really happy with any of the choices. In an ideal world, I'd want:

a) Text file only editor
b) ...that understood markdown
c) ...that syncronized to my computer via wifi
d) ...that checked things into subversion on my desktop
e) ...that would then have some way to integrate into my own bastard system that'll generate pdfs and rtfs.

But hey, I'm dreaming, right?

Well, I have a) covered. It does some of c) but I'm unhappy with it -- too manual.