[New-Poetry] Kindle 2

Halvard Johnson halvard at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 13:45:46 EST 2009 

At least the really big money is in used textbooks. The forest rejoices.

Hal

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> Tell it to the textbook publishers . . .
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Another forest weeps.
>>
>> 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
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> that 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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      --Don Marquis

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