Thread: The New Yorker hates on Kindle
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Old 08-05-2009, 10:27 PM   #35
Anstance Tamplin
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I don't have an electronic reader. I joined MobileRead to help my 92-year-old mother, who uses a Kindle because of her poor eyesight and wanted recommendations. I took Nicholson Baker's New Yorker piece with a huge grain of salt, knowing that he'd campaigned to "rescue" historic newspapers that libraries were ditching after digitizing because of the cost of keeping hard copies that they could no longer allow researchers to actually use for fear of destroying the documents. NB loves paper so an ereader is gonna be a tough sell for him. However, one thing his story underscored for me -- something that had already been underscored by my reading on MobileRead -- is that there is currently a lot of choice out there about which device to buy. And I started thinking about the great battle between VHS versus Betamax in the 1980s and wondering if eventually there will be just one ereader that rules them all? Will one format eventually be adopted so that we'll eventually have a choice of which brand we buy but they'll all be using the same format?
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