Those who know me should realize that I will be purchasing an iPad as soon as it is possible for me to do so. That should mean sometime this next week if all forecasts were accurate.

In preparation, I’ve started to get my head tuned around the change in my reading habits. I don’t need to buy physical books anymore. I will make the transition to eBooks on this device. Having already read Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” on my iPhone via the convenient Kindle app I can attest that I will have no trouble making the switch. That is not to say that I won’t still buy some physical material, but no longer in the quantities that I have in the past.

My initial thought was that I would cart he iPad around everywhere I normally do my reading. But have since changed my mind in that regard and I hope the brain trust at Apple is thinking the same way. I think for me to fully get the best experience out of iBooks (and yes I know it isn’t available in Canada yet, it just needs the right help to get it going. Andrew, I hope you are listening) the books themselves will need to be available wherever I want them. iPad, Mac, and iPhone.

If iBooks takes the same approach as does my iTunes music account, I should be able to buy a book and enable multiple devices to access it. This way I could read in bed on my iPad, continue reading during my commute in my iPhone (sorry but the St. Clair streetcar is too crowded to whip out a large iPad). Heck, when textbooks and technical manuals are available, I think I’d rather read reference manuals on my work desktop and MacBook when working rather than having to haul an iPad over to look at a manual.

I have complete and utter faith in Apple and I know they will get it right.

I’m starting on a new project that I hope to see off the ground in a few days. the big sqaure will be a webcomic of sorts. If a webcomic could be crossed with a Digg or Reddit that is.

The gist of it is: I can’t draw, but I’ve got tons of ideas. Serial and otherwise. So, each week I’ll post an idea and an empty square. Anyone can draw what I’ve asked and submit it. Upon acceptance, the image will join any others gathered. Every visitor can then vote on which is the best depiction of my description. When I post the next square’s description, the winner of the previous week is set as the comic and will appear in the archive appropriately. All others will still be stored and available for perusal. Every piece of art remains owner by the artist, yadda yadda yadda.

I hope it will cause many different interpretations of what I describe. If not, it’ll divert my attention for awhile.

Expect an announcement and promotion once I finish creating the back-end to run it. Should be an easy dev project for an old horse like me.