We just got a Nook in the mail as a gift from Cathrine!! AAAHHHH I’m so excited. (Thank you, thank you, Cathrine!)
My second step after opening the box for a new piece of electronic equipment is to order the necessary protection for said equipment. Is it unreasonable to be suspicious of any Nook screen protector at a steep discount sold by Amazon, home of the Kindle? They probably get their kicks from Nooks with scratched up screens.
The Kindle doesn’t handle Adobe’s digital rights management … you cannot check books out from the library and use them on it. The B&N Nook, however, does support such things (as do a host of other ereaders). Since the release of the latest Kindle, I’ve been hankering for one - the lack of that feature has actually been a deterrent.
ebooks.nypl.org
I have just borrowed my first digital book from the library.
Uh oh. The Kindle is creeping up my want list again…
As a refugee of Katrina who lost his house and all personal possessions, it’s nice to know that if I’m running out the door in another evacuation, I can grab my Kindle and have 1,500 books while I figure out how to start again from scratch.
Chacodog, in NYT Bits Blog on Barnes & Noble’s new E-Reader
Amazon should pay this guy for quotes this good.
It’s earth-friendly, too, supposedly. Yes, it’s made of exotic materials that are shipped all over the world’s oceans; yes, it requires electricity to operate and air-conditioned server farms to feed it; yes, it’s fragile and it duplicates what other machines do; yes, it’s difficult to recycle; yes, it will probably take a last boat ride to a Nigerian landfill in five years. But no tree farms are harvested to make a Kindle book; no ten-ton presses turn, no ink is spilled.
A New Page; Can the Kindle really improve on the book? (New Yorker)
Catching up on the New Yorker after being out of town for a month…
