Chip Kidd has voiced his view about Amazon’s Kindle. And while some folks don’t agree with him, I think I do. I mean, a handheld unit like the Kindle would be nice if I’m a mechanic and referencing specs or manuals while working, but not to read. I agree that digital is the future, but these e-readers just haven’t “gotten” it yet.
Monthly Archives: November 2007
“Bad sex” award announced
I am always surprised when the “Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction” winner is announced. It’s always a pretty big-name author with a pretty awful excerpt. I can’t believe some of these analogies and descriptions make it through. This year’s is REALLY bad. Continue reading “Bad sex” award announced
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The Secret is out
Workplay is the venue for an event slated as “FOUND Magazine vs. Postsecret“. All of the sites and printed books/magazines for FOUND and Postsecret are fantastically voyeuristic and comforting at times.
Tickets are $15 a pop (or $40 for the VIP treatment, which includes some kind of ‘smaller intimate setting’) proceeds benefit HopeLine.
{via Pop Goes the City}
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A book of book blogs
I ran across The Bookaholics’ Guide to Book Blogs the other day while doing some holiday shopping. I have seen plenty of online writings about the cottage-industry of “book blogs” and “lit blogs”, but never an actual book. Are there others?
This 254-pager seems to give the backgrounds for some ‘big names’ in the book blog world. It might be a fun read. Here is the synopsis from the UK site (it’s a lot more succinct than the US one. Continue reading A book of book blogs
