Reading surveilled
The act of reading itself is becoming data.
Students and books
The appeal of paper
"[T]he social value of reading"
Verlyn Klinkenborg on what the iPad and Kindle do to the social value of reading
Walt Mossberg reviews the Nook
“It's not fully baked yet.”
David Pogue reviews the Nook
A “bad case of Ship-at-All-Costs-itis”
Princeton students and the Kindle
“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool,” said Aaron Horvath ’10, a student in Civil Society and Public Policy. “It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate.”
Nicholson Baker and the Kindle
"This was what they were calling e-paper? This four-by-five window onto an overcast afternoon?"
Amazon and Orwell
Removing books from Kindles
From the Doyle edition
You can't do this on the Kindle: a page from my college paperback of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
No Kindle for me
"The craving for content-on-demand seems to miss the ways in which one might want to go back to a book — one's own copy of it — over time, as it accumulates annotations, as it begins to show wear, as it turns into a record of one's reading and one's life experience. And how does one inscribe a gift book on the Kindle?"
Dickens on the Kindle
"Distractions abounded."