books
book ideas
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Books on Tape
Digging through some old collections of ideas I’ve had over the years, I found: Books on tape (books written on actual tape) Like most ideas I feature here on this site, I’m sure countless other people have had each of these ideas. Some probably went further with those ideas than I have. But should that…
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Yarn the Yak
In my post Eric Carle I’m Not, I discovered & refined the character of Yarn the Yak (they/them). This lovable yak with fur made of colorful yarn spoke to and I decided to run with it a little. First I created images of Yarn the Yak and their friends the armadillo, aardvark, and donkey using…
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Eric Carle I’m Not
I’m not an illustrator, though perhaps I always wished I had that talent. But all of this AI experimentation is about how to leverage the creativity I do have, with skills I do not. Hence I wanted to see about creating a children’s book. Create a page to go in a children’s book that features…
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Furthest Page Read
I got a Kindle for Christmas and I’ve ready quite a few books on it since. I also have the Kindle app for my iPhone and it’s handy that they allow me to sync my place between the two, so I can read on my iPhone when it’s dark and on my Kindle most of…
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A Better Use of Your (Reading) Time
How about a website that lays an interface over the avalanche of books that allows people to create playlists of books and articles for people looking for exposure to a particular topic. While that alone would be useful (to me), how about taking it a step further. Why not expose Pandora like functionality where I…
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Course Readers
I’m in the middle of a year at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and for each course we get a very extensive course reader full of articles, cases and other stuff. This is in addition to or in place of a textbook. Now, I might be an exception, but in how I learn and what…
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Retro Depot
How about an office supply store which just carries leftovers from the past? Actual leftovers… old trapper keepers, Pee-Chees, etc. Would hit the nostalgia of all the Gen-Xers looking for some of their youth.
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Been Prepared
How about a book filled with acceptance speeches for all occasions? It could be entitled “Be Prepared” (or something similar) and could give you either the beginning spark for a speech of your own or the whole thing verbatim. It could include speeches for when you win: I did some preliminary research, here’s a text…