Library book returned after fifty-four years
To the Jersey City Free Public Library
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”
Steven Pinker reviews Malcolm Gladwell
Highly critical
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.”
Enric Jardí on type
Good book marred by awkward translation and typographical errors
Reading Rainbow ends
After 26 years
You know you’re really an English major of a certain age when . . .
you immediately recognize T.S. Eliot’s Complete Poems and Plays: 1909–1950 (1971) on the bookshelf behind the interviewees on MSNBC’s Hardball.
THE MAIN TITLE
"Experimental layout by Jan Tschichold, 1948"
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
Awful Library Books
A blog
Florida Citrus responds
The Florida Department of Citrus has responded to Alissa Hamilton's book Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice: "The basic principle of orange juice processing is similar to how you make orange juice at home."
"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.
Review: Squeezed, the orange juice book
Review of Alissa Hamilton's Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
Agatha Christie, thickest spine
One book, 4032 pages
It's Buy Indie Day
Supporting independent bookstores
Buy Indie Day
Friday, May 1, supporting independent bookstores
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?"
Goodbye, Pages for All Ages
A bookstore gone