[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

[Halvard Johnson]

Very hard work--when you don't have a Kindle, though.

Hal

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Millicent Accardi <millb at aol.com> wrote:

> It may be a lot of work but you CAN download sample chapters on Kindle to
> see which edition you are getting.
>
> Although Kindle has a lot of blogs and popular novels, there is a fair
> amount of literary (new literary fiction) offered.
>
> At this point, Kindle is still in the early stages.  when I got mine over a
> year ago, I was lucky there were a few hundred books, now, there is a lot
> larger selection. Now, Kindle is not the NY Public Library or Gutenberg, but
> it does have potential.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Millicent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>
> To: Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu>
> Cc: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views <
> new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 8:06 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kindle 2
>
>  Quite so. I checked out Chekhov among its Kindle books and couldn't even
> tell
> who'd done the translations.
>
> Hal
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:
>
>>  My problem with Amazon Books (that they sometimes are not easy to search
>> and that they often give too little information about the books contents
>> and/or edition) is exasperated with Kindle Books.  Which edition is best of
>> Moby Dick? Are there truncations? I.e., are you reading a good version of
>> the book, or have the editors’ “fixed” Dickinson’s punctuation and
>> capitalization (as Perrine and Arp did in a freshman text and as the Barnes
>> & Noble version of her poems.
>>
>> The designation of Kindle Edition or Kindle Book does not give me
>> confidence.
>>
>> This is not a minor problem. Sometimes Amazon just says four novels by an
>> author without telling which.
>>
>> Their customers for Kindle seem to be probably readers of popular fiction,
>> not those who are concerned about the text they are getting20(like writers
>> and scholars). And the Amazon Kindle operation seems like a vendor which is
>> not overly concerned with its product.
>>
>> That’s from looking over the list for about an hour so I could be wrong.
>>
>>
>
>
>
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