For people who'd like to buy books from our site but have accounts with other booksellers, we've come upon a temporary solution. Our friend David Wilk at Livewriters.com recommended downloading a really cool widget that one can get by going to www.adaptiveblue.com and clicking on Install BlueOrganizer. Unfortunately, it only seems to work with Firefox.
After downloading, a tiny blue screen appears by the book title. Clicking on it offers you the possibility of buying the books from Booksense, Barnes & Noble, Audible, etc. as well as related links.

If you would like to know more about Dan, his career and his books, visit this month's Book Forum. Radhika Jones, the managing editor of the Paris Review gives you a nice description of our host's home and the books he has edited. One of them, Manhattan Within, I am particularly fond of. Long before I ever met Dan, I actually set up an interview for a client with Matteo Pericoli, whose beautiful drawing of Manhattan's skyline had captured my imagination when he'd published Manhattan Unfurled!

You may get tired of us praising Viddler for their amazing work. But for all of us out there who have sat waiting for buffering video to load or for an entire program to download, there is no doubt that Viddler is King! However, a few people have wondered how they could jump from one part of the video to another. So here is a visual/silent ;-) explanation....

Also, we'd like to recommend that you enlarge the player to its maximum size to get the 100% Viddler experience. If you are not sure how, let us know and we'll show it to you in our next entry!