LAST WEEK of this month’s Kindle-watch showed the highest total of Kindle’s yet. Of course, the iPad dominated ebook discussions for the week, even though ebooks are just a small piece of its offering. The last Kindle I saw was being used side by side with an iPhone.
I will have to […]
DESPITE spending less time on commuter and subway trains, the numbers don’t look that much off.
On the flight back from Seattle today it was dueling ebook readers, as one guy had a Sony Reader and one had a Kindle. The stewardess even mention that we needed to check the seatback pockets and not forget […]
THE KINDLES continued to come out of hiding this week. I witnessed another two people reading on their Kindles this week. One person was reading Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers, which supports my view that the vast majority of the reading being done with ebook readers consists of free and public domain boooks. […]
I EXPECTED there to be a larger number of Kindle’s on the Fitchburg line and the Red line after the Christmas and New Year Holidays. The first week back on the train started slowly. At first I saw a Sony Reader. Not sure if it was a new Daily Edition or not. At the end […]
The Boston Book Festival Twitter linked to this interesting little mashup of “The Big Lebowski” and William Shakespeare entitled Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. It definitely brings a smile to face after a long first week back at the day job after the holidays. Makes me want to rush out and buy some milk […]
I WILL not be on the commuter rail or subway for the rest of the holiday season, but I find it interesting that I only saw one Kindle in the month of December. Perhaps the Kindles are shy, as there were a lot more out and about in October and November. I will […]
I DECIDED to count the number of Kindles I see on my regular commutes during the month of December. 0 for December 1st, but 1 for today. I looked over and the guy had a Kindle DX, which looked large and in charge compared to my Kindle 1.0. I didn’t really mind […]
TODAY provided a prime example of no matter how jaded you might be, you can get surprised in a very pleasant way when you least expect it. Catching the Red Line up to Porter Square from Kendall Square I noticed an elderly gentleman with white hair and glasses deeply engrossed in a paperback. I leaned […]
THE READING TASTES OF most commuters do not stray far from the old chestnuts of current American reading – Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight”, Ken Follett’s “The Pillars of Earth” and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”. I have seen a few more copies of “The Lost Symbol”.
Today I noticed a man, perhaps an academic of […]
ONE of the hazards of being an obsessive book lover is that you sometimes try to buy books in other countries, like England, before they are released in the US. You may be asking what’s the hazard. Well, too put it bluntly, most book cover design in the US sucks compared the UK […]
