Link to The New Yorker website, "A New Page: Can the Kindle Really Improve on the Book?"As with anything written by Baker, there's much that's quote-worthy.
Lots of ordinary people were excited about the Kindle 2, too—there were then about fifteen hundred five-star customer reviews at the Kindle Store, saying “I love my Kindle” over and over, and only a few hundred bitter one-stars. Kindle books were clean. “I’ve always been creeped out by library books and used books,” one visitor, Christine Ring, wrote on the Amazon Web site. “You never know where they’ve been!”
Based on library circulation figures so far this year, those who are creeped out are a distinct minority.
Baker provides a full transcription of his experience -- from pondering to ordering to opening the box to experimenting to musing. Lots of musing -- and our reading lives are the richer for it.
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