… is that the Kindle? Read Nicholson Baker’s take on the Kindle in this week’s New Yorker to find out. He’s a bit skeptical, to say the least. But “if you’re an author who makes his/her living from books, you have so many reasons to fear, love, despise, and/or at least be profoundly curious about Amazon’s Kindle e-reader.”
I pretty much agree with everything Baker says, especially his critique of the user interface of the device. I’m ultimately disappointed that so few books I want to read are Kindle-ready. I guess I just have to change my reading habits — turns out, according to Baker, “romance readers are major Kindlers” and he quotes a guy who says “The success of the ebook is being fueled by the romance and erotic romance market.”
[Image of an alphorn from here.]
Thanks for the photo of an alpenhorn. Now, can you find an image of a post-Gutenbergian revalorization?