Thanksgiving week has been pretty busy but I wanted to finally give an update my Turkey Trot. My Father-In-Law and I ran in the YMCA 5K Turkey Trot in Towson, MD. It was 32 Degrees at the start of the race at 9AM, but it warmed up after we started running. There were a lot of hills in the course, but it was a fun race. I finished in 28:10 a PR for me and I was happy with that. This was only my second race since I started running last summer. Maybe I am not a Turkey after all!

Here is a post about eBooks coming to the iTunes store: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/11/e-books-have-a.html



There are already some books in the App Store for reading on the iPhone and iPod Touch. A few months ago we had an Apple Engineer come to my University to talk about Apple products and solutions. He told us that Apple was in talks with the major publishers about bring text books to iTunes. There is already the iTunes University (iTunes link) - podcasts from all kinds of Universities free of charge. Many of them are the audio and/or video of classes you can take at that particular University. iTunes also has a “private” University area that only University users can access for even more content that only relates to current students/staff/faculty. It was really neat to hear about all the options although my University has yet to set up anything.

iTunes is already my first stop for music, podcasts, movies, and TV shows. I would love to be able to buy eBooks through it also, although the majority of my book reading is via Audible (audible.com). As I don’t have a lot of time to sit and read and I don’t consider myself a fast reader, I prefer to listen to audiobooks (I love the dramatizations). If you would like a referral for a free audiobook, use the contact page to ask for one.