[New-Poetry] Kindle 2
TheOldMole
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Thu Mar 5 13:51:05 EST 2009
hypocritical but true is my favorite combination, next to beer and
hamburgers.
Jeff Newberry wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto:halvard at gmail.com>>
> To: Millicent Accardi <millb at aol.com <mailto:millb at aol.com>>
> Cc: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto:halvard at gmail.com>>
> To: Millicent Accardi <millb at aol.com <mailto:millb at aol.com>>
> Cc: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto:halvard at gmail.com>>
> To: Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu
> <mailto:skip at louisiana.edu>>
> Cc: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &,Views
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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