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 […]
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 HAVE been lazy as of late, and I have not made time to write up my experiences on the train. In some cases, my eyes have been become heavy and I nearly wandered into to “sleeper” territory (but not quite, and definitely no pillows).
Last night, however presented my first sighting of dinner on […]
MY SUBWAY trip from Kendall Square to Porter Square suffered from a slight delay to a fire department issue at Kendall Square. Fire fighters worked the other end of the platform, but a train showed up and slowly made it out of the station, despite the smoke in the air. Hopefully the smoke was harmless. […]
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 […]
THE TRAIN EERILY MADE ITS WAY to Boston today without a lot of passengers. I was in no danger of having somebody sit with me as the Columbus Day holiday emptied the morning Express of most of its passengers. The lack of people made it feel more like a late evening run than a morning […]
