[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

[Halvard Johnson]

That's great, Mill. Nothing can save you money like sample chapters of
a book you meant to buy.

Hal

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Millicent Accardi <millb at aol.com> wrote:

> Hi Hal
>
> You can see sample chapters at Amazon too. If you don't have a Kindle.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Millicent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>
> To: Millicent Accardi <millb at aol.com>
> Cc: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 9:15 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kindle 2
>
>  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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?"
>>       --Don Marquis
>>
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