MachineMachine /stream - tagged with nicholson-baker http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Kindle and the future of reading, Nicholson Baker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one. “Say Hello to Kindle 2,” it said, in tall letters on the main page. If I looked up a particular writer on Amazon—Mary Higgins Clark, say—and then reached the page for her knuckle-gnawer of a novel “Moonlight Becomes You,” the top line on the page said, “ ‘Moonlight Becomes You’ and over 270,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle—Amazon’s new wireless reading device. Learn more.”… ]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:43:00 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/03/090803fa_fact_baker?currentPage=all