Oct
20
2009
Books as Objects
Will book’s physicality save them from digitization? A very thoughtful essay from J-C. G. Rauschenberg on the relationship between books, vinyl and our culture’s privileged purveyors of taste.
May
6
2009
Even on iPods, People Are Still Reading
ReadWriteWeb covered an interesting piece of news from O’Reilly’s showing that the fastest growing category in Apple’s App store was eBooks. Part of this may be explained by the ease at which these apps can be created — the average eBook vendor offers many more apps than vendors store wide. However, it also shows that people still read and that a device that allows people to easily and quickly access content from multiple sources is going to be the reading platform of the future for a large range of written content.
Recommended Reading
- Review: Reason Faith and Revolution
February 1, 2010 | 7:57 pmReason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series)
Terry Eagleton
Yale University Press, 2009
If fundamentalism is as Terry Eagleton claims a “failure of the imagination,” Reason, Faith, and Revolution is his attempt to show how religion’s liberal opponents and their ultra-rationalist arguments have suffered the same intellectual failures as those that they [...] - Survival Supervivencia Review
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- The Accordionist’s Son
March 30, 2009 | 8:40 amIn The Accordionist’s Son, Bernardo Atxaga brings the horrors of recent history to light without diminishing the mysteriously foreign and beautiful world that he has created. And it is another world that Atxaga has created, so particular in the details of both the land and its inhabitants that it feels organic like few fictional worlds [...]
- The Gone-Away World
March 14, 2009 | 5:48 pmNick Harkaway’s debut novel, The Gone-Away World, brings magical realism to the post apocalyptic genre. A well written vision for futurists and luddites alike.
- The Enchantress of Florence
March 14, 2009 | 5:29 pmIn the The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel Salman Rushdie continues to explore his interest in how the supernatural can be brought to life through the power of storytelling. However, he does so without the grandiosely experimental postmodernism of his earlier works.
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