[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

[Skip Fox]

I love the idea of 1,500 books in my book bag. Maybe I should take the time
to learn to find which edition/translator, etc.  I did search Robert Coover,
William Gass, Rikki Ducornet, and Angela Carter to see if they might carry
the type of contemporary novelist who is of great interest to me (who are
just as good if not as popular as Cormac McCarthy), and found only one novel
by Ducornet and a book on Carter (but none by). (They did have three novels
and The Border Trilogy, another three, by McCarthy.)

 

I plan to look deeper, Millicent, because the idea is so succulent, but am
somewhat disappointed to date.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu
[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Millicent Accardi
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:04 AM
To: halvard at gmail.com; new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kindle 2

 

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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