unpopular highlights
Virginia Heffernan: Amazon is quick to point out that you can always disable the [Popular Highlights] feature. But...
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stock overflow
Here’s a post by Peter Osnos on a book about Russian state security in the post-KGB era called The New Nobility:...
picture books
David Abrams, new Kindle owner and speculator about the future of reading: While I might initially object to the...
authors’ libraries
Conor Friedersdorf sends me a link to this story about attempts to recover and reassemble the libraries of dead...
one reader’s report
So I recently got an interesting email from my friend and editor Rod Dreher — you do read Big Questions Online,...
Lehrer on “the future of reading”
Here’s a terrific post from Jonah Lehrer, with this sparkful idea: The act of reading observes a gradient of...
read, mark, learn
Over the years I have developed a personal vocabulary of book annotation: I underline, I star, I write marginal...
ways of jesting
When it first became common for college students to write on computers, researchers noticed some changes in the quality...
private magazines
We’ve noted before that when you’re reading an e-reader in public, no one knows what you’re reading...
the bookshelf as memory theater
From a wonderful essay by Nathan Schneider: What concerns me about the literary apocalypse that everybody now...