Tag: Kindle

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| April 29, 2010

commonplace copying

I’m not going to try to summarize this provocative talk by Steven Johnson — just go read it. I am also not going to...

| April 19, 2010

iPad vs. Kindle

Sara Peyton compares reading on a Kindle and reading on an iPad: I’ve owned a Kindle for about 6 months and...

| February 27, 2010

technology update

So about a week ago I was reading a book on my Kindle when suddenly it disappeared. Not the Kindle, the book. The...

| January 23, 2010

Amazon’s bad move

Amazon’s decision to open the Kindle platform for app development is not smart. It seems obvious that Amazon is...

| January 14, 2010

Kindles and the blind

Here’s a curious story: Three U.S. universities will stop promoting the use of Amazon.com’s Kindle DX e-book...

| December 9, 2009

delusions of originality

James Higgs writes: When I buy a book, I’m buying a physical, real world object that has properties that can be...

| October 28, 2009

life imitates Text Patterns

In particular, my post the other day about the Kindle user trying a book for the first time. Marco Arment on the Kindle...