[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

Thu Mar 5 13:34:04 EST 2009

Forgot to mention, I like the smell of books too--especially the moldy
ones--almost as much as
I love the warmly metallic smell of my laptop, the feel and sound of its
keys, the play of ambient
light on the screen.

Hal

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> Halvard Johnson
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