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Old 08-07-2009, 09:47 AM   #8
jmignault
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl View Post
Hi jmignault! Welcome to MR! What sort of books do you like to read? Will you tell us some of your favorite titles?

Stitchawl
I'm starting to read modern fiction again, after a long hiatus reading mostly technical material and non-fiction for work (I'm a systems librarian.) A few favorite authors off the top of my head: James Joyce, David Foster Wallace, P.G. Wodehouse, S.J. Perelman, Lorrie Moore, Mavis Gallant, William Trevor, Roald Dahl, William Gaddis...One of the reasons I bought the Kindle 2 rather than the DX was that I wanted an e-reader that wasn't a laptop, netbook, etc - something that wasn't for business and had no distractions.

About the only drawback I can see to the Kindle is that I do read poetry, and the copy of Leaves of Grass I bought looks terrible on Kindle - lines broken all over the place.
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