Part of speech: Nown

Plural: Scabbards

Pronunciation: \ˈska-bərd\

The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.

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As Robert continues on his 50 Novels in a Year Challenge, I watch in envy as he checks each interesting book from his list. My love of a good challenge and a good book, and my new Sony PRS-505 Reader purchase, finally made me decide to jump in and join him.

I miss reading for fun, as I was a kid who never let [...]

After reading about Tracy’s Wannadoeverythingism disease and its ‘nasty’ book collecting symptoms, I remembered something I’d seen a couple of days ago in a Wired article - the personal library of Jay Walker, Internet entrepreneur and founder of Walker Digital. That’s right folks, I’ll say it again - this is Jay’s PERSONAL library, not a [...]

I’m sorry to have kept this from you, but I’ve been sick for a while. I have a disease that is rare but also goes unreported so it could be more extensive than I know.

I have Wannadoeverythingism.

What are the symptoms?

A large amount of books on a wide variety of subjects. Barnes [...]

In part 1 of this 2-part series I spoke of the concept of using a heightened sense of curiosity while learning, in order to improve both performance and interest. I also spoke about how we’re all inherently born with this heightened sense of curiosity, and how it sadly diminishes in most of us as we [...]

Two posts ago, I mentioned that I’m trying to learn Spanish and I thought I’d just share the many different ways I’m going about it.

And as a quick note, I got quite a few resonses to that and I’m absolutely thrilled, but I’m sorry to say that my slow Spanish conversation skills will make the [...]

I thought long and hard about what I really wanted to talk about in my inaugural post for Endless Scholar. Do I talk about some of the gadgets I use to facilitate my learning? Do I talk about some of the systems I have in place to help me learn? Or do I perhaps go [...]

Just a quick post to ask if we have anyone reading this that’s a fluent Spanish speaker. I’m trying to learn Spanish (I’ll post more about how and using what at a later date) and I thought it’d be fun to try to converse with someone who has similar interests. Anyone interested in chatting through [...]