Birkerts and the Kindle
Well, Sven Birkerts suspects the Kindle — no surprise there. Interestingly, in the seminar I’m currently...
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I'm counting you out
I love the book2 site, but this idea? — not so much. Not at all. In fact, I hate the very notion. I can't...
the end of book reviews?
By which I mean not the reviewing of books but the kind of newspaper section called a book review, as in the New York...
the Republic of Letters
Here’s an excellent article by Robert Darnton, about which I will have more to say later. But for now here’s a...
teaching people how to use books
David Parry at academhack, in a post called “Teaching in the Age of Distraction,” writes, “Let’s be clear: I...
in the reign of King Josiah
For people interested in the relations between orality and literacy, there’s a fascinating passage in the Biblical...
Franz Wright, “Learning to Read”
If I had to look up every fifth or sixth word, so what. I looked them up. I had nowhere important to be. My father was...
get yer red-hot news here
Yesterday Jack Shafer had a weirdly grumpy column in which he rags on the Kindle for, among other things, not doing...
Camiroi curriculum, fourth grade
History reading, Camiroi and galactic, basic and geological. Decadent comedy. Simple geometry and trigonometry, hand...