This Daily Show segment where Jon Hodgman discusses Borders (it starts at the 7:57 mark) was aired nearly a week ago, but in my defense, Borders officially gave up the ghost nearly a month before that, so it’s not like this is breaking news. No, the reason I’m sharing it is because it’s good weekend [...]
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Paper sculptures in Pottermore video are beautiful, make book hard to read
Don’t loan J.K. Rowling any first editions! The author of Harry Potter doesn’t just love ebooks now, she hates printed books. Why, look at the lengths she’ll go to deface one in her new video announcing her HP ebook venture: The hand-cut, stop-motion paper animations are gorgeous. You definitely can’t slice up an E Ink [...]
Borders employees amuse Internet with snarky sign humor
Buzzfeed has a fun/sad page of 13 different signs recently found in Borders stores across the U.S. Some of them convey the sort of opinions you imagine bookstore employees are usually forced to keep private, which is always fun to read. A couple are brilliant, like the “No Restrooms” one that was going around last [...]
90-second “A Wrinkle in Time” is like a Spark Notes video made by tiny, insane actors
The problem with old age, or Internet overdoses, or vitamin B12 deficiency (that’s today’s health story), is that you forget the classics. For example, I know Charlotte was a spider, but did she save her pig-baby from a bejeweled Hobbit? Who can say? Similarly, I remember that there’s something called a tesseract, but I think [...]
Is a Kindle bullet proof? There’s one quick way to find out.
“Can a book save your life?” That’s what Tom Shillue of the literary journal Electric Literature asks in the clip above, and you can tell he should be taken very seriously because he does that TV news journalist walk toward the camera at the beginning. (EL’s next clip should test which books are sexual predators.) [...]
My favorite childhood book of all time is now an iPad app
[And now a quick interruption from Kindle posts...] In my opinion, there is one book that surpasses all others in children’s literature, and it involves Grover insisting that you do not turn the page. In fact, that’s pretty much all it is, page after page. And although I’m being a little jokey about saying it’s [...]
A reminder that not everyone likes to receive a book for a gift
That Kindle holiday ad now running on U.S. television warms me like a cup of hot chocolate, but I suspect it’s something of a Christmas miracle. For contrast: Once, while I was working at a mortgage company back in college (this was before the industry destroyed America–we actually verified incomes), I was forced to participate [...]
"The Onion" releases 5 exclusive Kindle books for $2.99 each
If you enjoy the silly fake news and editorials of The Onion–my favorite thing to see is when really uptight strangers make the mistake of thinking a story is real and go bananas denouncing it–then you’ll be happy to know that the company is releasing five low-priced collections exclusively to the Kindle Store: America’s Finest [...]
Amy Sedaris mocks ereaders in funny promo clip
After finally turning her new book, “Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People,” around so that the cover is upright and facing the camera, the always hyperactive comedian Amy Sedaris says, “For many of you young readers, this is a book.” She goes on from there to poke gentle fun at the whole burgeoning ebook scene, [...]
The Kindle is so easy to use, I can crash my car while reading it
This video is making the rounds right now, and I thought some other Kindle owners might appreciate it. I sort of wish by the end of the clip he tried to play a trumpet, just to prove how hardcore he is about multitasking. [via TechCrunch]
Amazon pulls Kindle game over offensive language
The new Kindle game Every Word really means every word, even slangish, potentially offensive terms. At his blog laughing-stalk, Erik Deckers wrote that last night he was trying to finish an Every Word game and got stuck on one final, missing term. I was missing one 6-letter word. Not wanting to leave an incomplete board [...]
Geeky screensavers for your Kindle DX
A reader named Will posted a link in the Screens page to a handful of DX-friendly screensavers hosted over at Picasa. If you’ve read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, played Portal, or watched Futurama, you will likely be interested. If not, carry on. Kindle Screensavers by William [Picasa Web Albums]
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