[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

Jeff Newberry jeff.newberry at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 13:37:44 EST 2009 

I suppose you've a point, Hal.  You can romanticize anything.  I'm not
spoilin' for a fight.  I see your point.

Best,
Jeff

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>       --Don Marquis
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is what art really is, particular stories of particular people and
experience, from which each according to his own immediate and peculiar
needs may drawn his own conclusion. --W.H. Auden
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