[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

Jeff Newberry jeff.newberry at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 13:06:30 EST 2009 

Me?  I doubt I'll ever own one of these things.  I'm still saving for a 1972
Fender Telecaster Reissue, and in this economy, that guitar is becoming more
pipe dream and less something I'll actually own.

But I'm and odd duck.  I like the visceral quality of owning a book--the
feel of the pages, the smell of the ink, the slight variances in font and
spacing.  I guess because I edit a college magazine, I'm attuned to such
qualities, though I doubt that I'm alone.

I also like browsing in real bookstores, even if they are huge stores like
Borders or B&N.  I like picking up different books, paging through them, and
skimming the contents.  I like the subtle surprise of finding a book I'd not
hear of, picking it up off the shelf, and being captivated.  I like looking
at covers and feeling the different kinds of textures that books have.

I suppose that I'm an odd one, but (again) I refuse to believe that I am
alone.

If I ever owned a Kindle, it would be in *addition* to the books I own and
will continue to buy.

Ye olde luddite,
Jeff Newberry

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Millicent Accardi <millb at aol.com> wrote:

> It's the same thing (to me) as sitting in a bookstore and leafing through a
> book I may want to buy.
>
> . . .Yeah, Kindle is not perfect. Yeah, Amazon is a business not a
> university and needs to make money. Yeah, it's not like a mortar and pestle
> book store, but I think that being able to read or review a T of C and
> sample chapters is a very useful feature.  I actually LIKE being able (in
> the quiet of my own home) to read sample chapters before I spend money on a
> book!  In bookstores I always feel as if I am sneaking around doing that.
>
> 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 9:46 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kindle 2
>
>  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
>>
>>
>> -----Or iginal 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..
>>>>
>>>> =0 AThe 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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