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.”
Reading Rainbow ends
After 26 years
Reading and not reading in Jersey City
Excerpts from Helene Stapinski's Five-Finger Discount
Nabokov's index cards, coming in November
Publishers Weekly review of the unfinished Nabokov novel
Books, books, jive sugar
A wall of books and other items
Books and guns
"What guns are for some people, books are for me."
Nicholson Baker and the Kindle
"This was what they were calling e-paper? This four-by-five window onto an overcast afternoon?"
Love Is Like Park Avenue
Forthcoming book by Alvin Levin
Fresh cookies, fresh ironing
Proustian passage from a childhood book
Amazon and Orwell
Removing books from Kindles
"So cheap, so accessible"
Reading on the Kindle: books as disposable objects
David Barringer on books
"A book is like a body part, and when you die and your connection to the book is broken, the book dies a little, too."
"Proud non-reader"
"I am a proud non-reader of books": Kanye West, on the occasion of his first book.
Smell of Books™
"a revolutionary new aerosol e-book enhancer"
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."
Good news, bad news about reading
From the National Endowment for the Humanities: fiction up, overall reading down
Reading don't pay
From Dickens' Bleak House
JANUARY (WPA Art Project)
A Year of Good . . . . Reading Ahead
Books as calendars (Proust)
On reading in childhood
Penguin's not so great idea
Penguin's Great Books, third series, won't be published in the U.S. But there may still be a not too expensive way to get the books.
Penguin's Great Ideas
Excerpt from review of Peguin's Great Ideas paperbacks, third series, with links to photos of the covers
Note to self re: bookbuying
Many times in the past two years, I've bought just-out hardcover non-fiction and been hugely disappointed, sometimes by the ideas, sometimes...
"Books v. Cigarettes"
Orwell on the cost of reading
The Vacation Reading Club
1939 WPA poster
Borders Books and Music in trouble
From an article in tomorrow's New York Times : Struggling against both online and big-box retailers, the Borders Group, the bookseller, sai...
"A lot out there is conspiring to distract you"
More on continuous partial attention and reading habits : I recently spoke with a junior who was stressed about her decreasing ability to f...
Richard Rorty on the value of literature
The inspirational value Rorty claims for literature lies in its capacity to "make people think there is more to this life than they ever ima...
Zadie Smith on reading
Great observation on what it means to really be a reader