crisis averted! (maybe)
Herewith a cautionary — or an encouraging — tale. (Depends on how you read it.) A few weeks ago I started having a...
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advice sought
Yesterday I got this email from Amazon: We’re writing about your past Kindle purchase of The Lord of the Rings by...
students and their Kindles
Via Nick Carr, a really interesting forthcoming paper on how students read using the Kindle DX. Some findings: •...
teaching from the Kindle
So, I did something dumb a couple of weeks ago: when packing up some books to sell at a nearby Half-Price Books, I...
plusses and minuses
. . . of the iPad as a reading device. The minuses: Terrible screen glare, even indoors. Fingerprints on the screen are...
infinite gestures
Yeah, I know everybody read Infinite Jest last summer, but I didn’t. I had a book to write. Also this summer. So...
algorithmic culture
I’ve written here about my interest in Amazon’s recently implemented “Popular Highlights” feature, which lets...
poor academic tools
This is not surprising: The Kindle isn’t doing as well in academic environments as Amazon—and educators—had...
a boon to the annotator
Thanks to one of my wise and learned commenters, I discovered the pretty-much-wholly-unadvertised Your Reading page on...