Last week I decided that I was interested enough in e-readers and all related e-paraphernalia to get involved on a much higher rung than the one I was then standing on.

Still in it's initial throes, The Death of Paper is serious look at the e-world with regards to how my beloved literary world is going. It's a weird place to be. As a publisher, the e-world knocks the spots off the current distribution model but as a reader, book collector and lover it sucks. Let's see what happens...

On a far more important note. I have finished my top 20 albums of the decade. It was spectacularly difficult. Assuming that nothing of any particular value will come out in the next 30 days or so that will shake my foundation to the ground, for your amusement I hereby present the Twenty Greatest Albums of the Decade (2000 - 2009):

1. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
2. Finger Eleven - Finger Eleven
3. Sixx AM - The Heroin Diaries
4. Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
5. Papa Roach - Getting Away With Murder
6. 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
7. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
8. Nickelback - All The Right Reasons
9. Neurosonic - Die, Drama Queen, Die
10. Dope - American Apathy
11. The Dreaming - Etched in Blood
12. Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
13. Daughtry - Daughtry
14. Richie Kotzen - Into The Black
15. Hinder - Better Than Me
16. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
17. HIM - Love Metal
18. Paul Stanley - Live To Win
19. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
20. Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby!

For better or worse, I am entirely comfortable with this list. My music taste has changed dramatically in the last ten years.