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Tom, Mills, and I take up the much-debated issue of whether and how digital work should count toward promotion and tenure on this episode of the podcast. We also examine the significance of university presses putting their books on Amazon’s Kindle device, and the release of better copyright records.

In this the third book of the Rooter & Snuffle raccoon series, Soffe gives us three more delightful short tales, each with an important message. In "My True Friends," Rooter falls under the bad influence of Twitcher, the bully rabbit, and turns his back on his friends.

Now that I've nicely got my book collection under tellico, I thought it would be interesting to see how well each book rated, and what were the ones that garnered the most stars and number of reviews on Amazon.

Mobipocket on Java phones By David Rothman While some publishers act as if the Kindle will be the iPod of e-books, Amazon is smartly hedging its bets with a version of Mobipocket for Java phones. The public alpha is here. Meanwhile you’ll recall that Mobipocket is also headed for the iPhone.

In an effort to stick by my previously-stated philosophy of limiting my dud purchases, I read the sample material for Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation. This book is a bit of an instant classic, so it was easy to pull the trigger on it. Silly me, though.

On Thursday we asked you what books have changed your life, and over 250 thoughtful comments later, it's clear you all have book shelves stuffed with meaningful tomes. Now it's time to share the love.

Google’s one of my favorite companies. In fact, I own a tiny speck of it for retirement purposes. So at least as a small shareholder, let me gripe—loudly—if a report in Library Stuff is on target. I suspect it is. "One year ago today, Google Librarian Central blog was updated," LS’s Steve Cohen writes in How Google used librarians…and got away with it.

Up to now I’ve managed to fight the temptation to go crazy and buy every Kindle edition that looks appealing. Every time I see that "Buy" button I tremble a bit, and then I scroll further up the screen and hit "Try a Sample" instead. Yes, as of right this minute, I’ve only bought two Kindle editions but I’ve downloaded sample content from 15 other books.

Those new $99 Sony Readers from a year ago have long since sold out. But at least as of this nanosecond, you can buy refurbished, first-gen Readers from Overstock.com for just $204.99. That’s quite a discount from the nearly $300 charged for the second-gen models.

Filed under: HandheldsAmazon's Kindle ebook reader has been doing pretty well as a consumer device, but we've always thought it had amazing potential as a textbook reader -- especially coupled iTunes-style with Amazon's online distribution system.