Tag: Kindle
Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A History on the Kindle–A Double Review
Ben Yagoda’s history of the memoir genre should make any other survey redundant. He’s performed a great service, not only to readers and writers but also to the new field of nonfiction/memoir studies.
As promised previously, I will describe not only what I learned from reading the book but also from reading it on the Kindle. First, the [...]
Posted: January 2nd, 2010 under Books About Memoir, My Reviews.
Tags: Ben Yagoda, Kindle, memoir history, unreliable memory
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Why I am Loving My Kindle: And a Request for Readers to Report on Their Own E-book Experiences
A few weeks ago I posted a list of 18 books I had blogged about in the last six months. At the end of the list I included two books I have not yet read, pictured here.
Today I got out my six-month-old Kindle and spent 20 seconds ordering the two books–Mary Karr’s Lit and Ben Yagoda’s Memoir: A [...]
Posted: December 27th, 2009 under Books About Memoir, My Reviews, Personal Reflections.
Tags: Ben Yagoda, e-books, Kindle, Mary Karr, Nook
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The Amazon Kindle v. Barnes & Noble’s Nook and iPhone App: Five Things the Kindle Gets Right and Five It Gets Wrong
Last August, The New Yorker published Nicholson Baker’s extensive, very mixed, review of my brand-new birthday present–an Amazon Kindle 2. The article mentions a YouTube of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos laughing freakishly hard. I thought it appropriate to find and share the freakish laughter video with you on Halloween, just after Barnes & Noble has announced their competing [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2009 under My Reviews, Personal Reflections.
Tags: Apple, Barnes & Noble, e-books, iPhone, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Nook
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