Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Kindling For Kindle

Who reads anymore?

"For latest Kindle, a flow of adjectives and speculation" by David Mehegan, Globe Staff | February 10, 2009

.... The Kindle and similar devices inevitably raise a question about the future of printed books: Will the convenience of electronic reading make the experience of curling up with a book a thing of the past? Most authorities on the place of books in society doubt it.

Slight confession: I wasted a lot of money over the years buying books instead of learning the video games. Dumb move, huh?

Yet Bezos yesterday made the new Kindle sound like the dawn of a new millennium. "Our vision is every book ever printed, in any language, all available in less than 60 seconds," he said at the unveiling.

Who cares? No one reads anymore.

You got "The New Pearl Harbor" in there?

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