[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

Thu Mar 5 13:39:58 EST 2009

Hi Mill,

I think that you're probably right.  I rarely go on long residencies or
trips, so the Kindle may not be the best thing for me.  However, I will
admit that I lied a teensy bit:  I do like technology quite a bit.  I've a
laptop and a desktop as well as a tv and a microwave and a Blackberry.  So,
my position on books is probably a bit hypocritical, but that doesn't mean
that what I posted isn't true.

Thanks for your thoughts on the Kindle.  I appreciate hearing what you have
to say.

Best,
Jeff

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Millicent Accardi <millb at aol.com> wrote:

> Hey Jeff--
>
> I'm a luddite as well!  No TV, no microwave.
>
> And I have to agree with you that nothing replaces books (at least not
> now).
>
> Like I said at the beginning of this discussion when Anny posed a question
> about the Kindle: it's great for travel and commuting and the backyard or
> beach. I think I use it about 10-20% and, the rest of the time, I still read
> regular books. At this point, my Kindle (which a prized possession) has not
> replaced the thousands of books that crowd my little shack in the canyon.
> It's an additional tool that, for me, is surprisingly useful.
>
> For someone who travels or goes on residencies or who has a long commute on
> a train, and wants to take decent reading material along, it's a great,
> light-weight tool.
>
> Before I left for Spain, I downloaded most of the books I needed for my
> writing project (those that were not avail thru Amazon, I shipped in a box).
> I also downloaded literary blogs, the Irish Times, the London Times and a
> bank of book reviews and The New Yorker.  Since in EU whisper net is not
> available, I figured I would load up.  It made my trip a lot lighter!  And I
> felt rather stocked up on reading material in the airports I managed to be
> stuck inside.
>
> For me the Kindle (at this point) is to books as a bicycle is to a car.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Millicent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail ..com>
> Sent: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:06 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Kindle 2
>
>  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, ther e 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 trun cations? 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 A 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?"
>>>>       --Don Marquis
>>>>
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