Which I just happened to finish a few weeks ago, and loved from beginning to end. I nearly spilled my breakfast coffee this morning reading Schwartz’s article, as I assumed that I was some rare adult fan of Ernest Cline’s weird and wonderful comic dystopia, a world set mostly in a videogame. I enjoyed the [...]
First interesting #NYTBR in ages…especially @JohnSchwartz on Ready Player One audiobook!
May 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Britannica should have been Wikipedia. Blockbuster should have been Netflix. So hard to recognize the seeds of your destruction and get off the railroad tracks. #change #university
March 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’m dreaming DPLA…but first, let’s kill all the acronyms! @dpla @macaulayhonors
October 27, 2011 by Leave a Comment
GO DAVID FERRIERO! Quote of the day: I want every stinking piece of this collection digitized,” Mr. Ferriero said. “I want it available to the world 24 hours a day.” No mere mortal can search across the nation’s rich archival and book databases, and life’s too short [...]
Best e-book and web developer in town happens to be Matt Stine: read how he made R.L.Stine even scarier on Kindle! http://bit.ly/qcE3ME #ereading
October 13, 2011 by Leave a Comment
What happens what you can’t judge a book by its cover? My latest e-reading thoughts, http://bit.ly/mjNkNT
May 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment
and if you are motivated to read some other articles I wrote on this subject: More “For the Love of Reading,” with Brooke Gladstone, “On the Media,” WNYC-NPR, July 2, 2010 (podcast). My iPAD day, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 2010 How do you read your books? Romana Koval interviews Ann Kirschner for “the [...]
Old dumb media on my iPad
August 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Why does Vanity Fair cost $3.99 if you buy it on your iPad but $4.99 if you buy it on iTunes? If you go to the VF site, you are invited to buy a print subscription ($1/issue if you buy annually), Wait, why does it cost anything at all since I have a print subscription? [...]
Don’t look now
August 9, 2010 by Leave a Comment
From all those people looking into screens rather than ahead, around, behind them, we can conclude that something superior is right there on the screen. Why would any dumb text message seem more interesting than real life? Gary Shteyngart’s publicity is turned up way high, but everything I’ve read about him and by him is [...]
