Tag: Kindle

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| March 3, 2009

Birkerts and the Kindle

Well, Sven Birkerts suspects the Kindle — no surprise there. Interestingly, in the seminar I’m currently...

| January 13, 2009

get yer red-hot news here

Yesterday Jack Shafer had a weirdly grumpy column in which he rags on the Kindle for, among other things, not doing...

| December 20, 2008

on typography

To my mind, the single biggest flaw of the Kindle may be summed up in a single word: typography. The Kindle has one...

| December 18, 2008

three theses for disputation

1) The future of reference works will be online, because research requires the aggregation and association of divergent...

| December 16, 2008

responding to responses

A few responses to my previous Kindle posts that I’d like to address: Adam S: “Clearly there are weaknesses to the...

| December 14, 2008

more kindling

The first thing I should say about Christine Rosen’s critique of the Kindle, which I mentioned in my earlier post on...

| December 11, 2008

me and my Kindle

I pause in my Manhattan festivities to bring you this message. One day a few months ago, I stood in my local Borders...