Amazon Kindle…

My wife gave me an Amazon Kindle for my birthday:

That arrived yesterday. I plugged her in and charged her up and read her instructions and started playing with her. As soon as I knew I was getting one, I went to the Kindle Store and checked out the free books and some specific books I wanted and acquired about 15 books and had them on my “Kindle for PC”, but didn’t do much with them till last night.

I have to say I’m impressed and happy with this gift! It is light weight, does just about everything we were doing at AV Books, Inc. (although in black and white instead of color, and missing a few key concepts we had at AV Books., Inc.), and is very easy to use.

I’ve already added a few of my own documents to it that I am working on (and I can annotate them and work on them to an extent with the Kindle if I’m “on the road”), and I’ve put some music on it so I can listen to something as I read. Either with the decent speakers that come with it, or with ear buds (buy separate, but who doesn’t have a set or three lying about already?). You can put PDFs, which I will be doing soon, on it as well as audio books and a few other such items.

Now, I do think you will want (I know I do) a case for it:

and if you want to buy me a late birthday gift, or early Christmas gift, please feel free to click the link above and send it to me. (Comment met with a way to get a hold of ya, and I’ll email you my mailing address. ) Just kidding… Sorta….

One thing I REALLY liked about it is there is a series of books called Summa Theologica which retails for about $155. This is a VERY old transcript written by a “Doctor of the Catholic Church” that is some good, yet hard, reading.

I have wanted this series for a while, but am not able to pay that much for a series of books. Five LARGE volumes.

I was able to buy it for the kindle for $1.05 after tax for the Kindle!

The Kindle was paid for in just this one book series!!

I LOVE IT!!

Thanks Debbie!!

IDMU

After a bit over a year, it FINALLY happened! Interactive Digital Multimedia, Inc. has finally gone public. The great day was this past Friday at 1000 hours! The trading symbol is IDMU and it is an OTC stock at this time. The goal of the company is to be able to trade on the “Open NASD” market within 24 months! Yes, it may be a penny stock now, but I am betting it won’t be within a few months!

This company has a great product, the best digital book format you will find, that can help the reader learn more and retain more!

Check them out at http://www.idmminc.com and buy a book in their great format!

Education…

As you probably know by now, I run a company that is working on a new product (well the product is done, and ready for market) that we feel will revolutionize the education process here in the US and abroad.

In this job I have been doing a LOT of research this past eight months on education in the US and abroad. Today I read something that had me dazed at it’s stupidity:

Florida court ruling against vouchers came after teacher Ruth Holmes Cameron and advocacy groups brought a suit to block the program.

“To say that competition is going to improve education? It’s just not gonna work. You know competition is not for children. It’s not for human beings. It’s not for public education. It never has been, it never will be,” Holmes said.

Where does Holmes get the idea that competition is not for our children? Why is competition bad for anyone? I STRONGLY feel that competition is what made the early US much better than the rest of the world at that time, the ability to compete and make things happen is what shaped the early US into a super power!

Education needs to go back to allowing kids to be flunked out if they don’t muster up and get good grades. Competition needs to return to the classroom, gym, and in general to most aspects of life. I am sickened by what I see at schools where you can’t fail, or get an F anymore. (I’ve seen some school districts do away with the grade.) Yes, your child CAN fail, and will fail in life if they are not challenged to excel! It is, from my findings, human nature to be lazy if you can, but if you are challenged (read have competition) you will succeed.

Wake up US (and world) bring competition back into life and challenge yourselves (against others) to do better and better!

Let’s get our education back on track, get our kids learning again, don’t let them fail from lack of trying!

Finished!!

Ok, here I can get in trouble. I work for a company (as President/COO of Interactive Digital Multi-Media, Inc (Formerly AV Books, Inc.) that just digitized (the CD at the back of the book), so I should press that this book is great, so you go out and buy it and I make some money.

But I can’t fully say that. (The CD at the back is all that saves it though. ) This book is OK. Over all, I’m sure it could be a great tool for some wanting to learn Spanish, and I agree with the over all principals of learning that Mrs. Stein talks about, but it just seems a bit dry to me. (Now, I have to admit I’ve been trying to learn Spanish for MANY years, and I do speak English (American style, native of course), Korean and German, so it’s not 100% a learning disability. I think it’s my living in El Paso Texas too much, and having everyone try to speak Spanish to me in a US store….)

It is a book, mainly because of the CD at the back, that I would recommend as a tool to help you learn Spanish, but there are other books and tools you should probably get too.

Did I learn any more Spanish? No, but I think I have a mental block about learning Spanish.. I’ll get over it…

Fun times!

First, we, at AV Books, now Interactive Digital MultiMedia Inc., received acceptance of today in from Alpha Books!! Very good news, and you will start receiving it soon when you order it, or at many books stores in a couple of weeks!! (The book is done, the disk is being mass produced tomorrow, and will be placed in the books and shipped out soon! I hope many of you buy it and enjoy it!

Today we started getting VERY active in producing in the IDM, Inc. ABCD Reader format. This book will have several minutes of video from . This book will be one of our best I’m sure!

More to come!! Enjoy!

Yeah!!

Well, at AV Books, we finished our 7th book, , and have shipped it to the American Bar Assocaition for approval and shipping!

Interesting the way Lawyers write books… Some good information in it, that applies to all business, though! Even if you aren’t an attorney, I recommend the book for some of the points it brings up in setting up a business, setting up an image, and in getting clients.

Enjoy the reading!

YEAH!!

Back on Monday we finally finished converting Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning French, 3E (The Complete Idiot’s Guide) (4E though, but it’s not yet available on Amazon or other sites/locations, but will be soon, and I will update this link then. )!! It is being burnt by the disk makers now, and should be in your book stores soon.

Another good thing is I will have a BIT more time to read myself and to work on other projects.

Down side is we went right into building our next two books, an American Bar Association Book (How to Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers) which should be done tomorrow, and the second Complete Idiot’s Guide book, Complete Idiot\’s Guide to Learning Spanish, 4th Edition (Complete Idiot\’s Guide to), which is available to pre-order now via Amazon, and which should be completed in a week and a half or so!

AV Books has a great product and these new releases will help get the name out there I’m sure!

Busy Times…

We have a lot going on at work (AV Books) these days. We are working on sending in three Federal Grant request for a series of Educational Studies using our Reader, we’re producing three books, Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning French, 3E (The Complete Idiot’s Guide) (Fourth Edition though, which is not ready to purchase in the US yet!), Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Spanish, 4th Edition (Complete Idiot’s Guide to), and How to Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers, by the American Bar Association. Add to that a couple of “stealth mode” projects and that’s a full calendar in itself! In fact so full I’ve been at work every weekend for the past three weekends including today. I have had to work several 27+ hour days, and one over 36 hours!

I still have Kodi to work with and train with for Search and Rescue, my Ph. D. dissertation (which hasn’t gotten too far), walks on the beach (been a while for that), and playing on the boat (although I missed the last three cruises because I needed to work..).

All that said, I’m having a blast!