[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

[James Cervantes]

IF it's true that Google will eventually (sooner, rather than later) have
every published book in electronic form, then we just await the device that
will tap into the data base and save your choices in a format much like
Kindle's.  I'd put my money on Apple for that device.  I'll wait for that.
- Jim

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:02 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.
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> The designation of Kindle Edition or Kindle Book does not give me
> confidence.
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> This is not a minor problem. Sometimes Amazon just says four novels by an
> author without telling which.
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> Their customers for Kindle seem to be probably readers of popular fiction,
> not those who are concerned about the text they are getting (like writers
> and scholars). And the Amazon Kindle operation seems like a vendor which is
> not overly concerned with its product.
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> That’s from looking over the list for about an hour so I could be wrong.
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