Entries Tagged as 'Kindle'

Lukewarm Kindling

December 1, 2009

Anthony Grafton on the Kindle, which he loves but describes as “reading free of visual delight”: Open an old-fashioned book — a book published by Zone this year, or, even better, by Alfred A. Knopf thirty or forty years ago, or, better still, one printed by Aldo Manuzio a few hundred years before that — and you [...]

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This is your brain on e-books

October 19, 2009

Jonah Lehrer on the neuroscience of how our brains process the words we read and how that process will be affected by ebooks: … most complaints about E-Books and Kindle apps boil down to a single problem: they don’t feel as “effortless” or “automatic” as old-fashioned books. But here’s the wonderful thing about the human [...]

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