Tag: Reading

187 Results

| June 17, 2009

delivery vehicles

That essay by Ann Kirschner I linked to the other day beat me to a punch: I had been planning a post about choices of,...

| June 10, 2009

tales untold

We know, thanks to the poet Keats, that “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter” —...

| June 2, 2009

if you offer it. . .

I read this some months ago but have unaccountably neglected to link to it — an essay by John Parker on why we...

| June 1, 2009

a bit o' linkage

Some doubts about Google Wave. The estimable Ted Striphas asks whether Google’s foray into e-book sales is likely...

| May 28, 2009

e-books in Africa

Could e-books provide a way of getting expansive intellectual resources into the hands of poor and historically...

| April 29, 2009

URLs for books

One small but, to me, significant point that Steven Johnson raises in his recent essay on e-reading is the increasingly...