A non-librarian friend of mine (ooh, name drop much? :)) shared an article, “A Country Without Libraries,” from the New York Review of Books, in her Google Reader feed. I started to write my long comment there, but then I thought “Why else do I have a blog?” While I…
… and, in the process, I’ve chosen a side in the ereader wars. (I’m not going to talk about ereaders vs. netbooks/iPads/iPhones vs. books right now. I’ve done that, albeit back in the pre-iPad era—and back when I was in love with a product that never actually made it to…
Getting the facts straight Even now, a year and a half after the release of Kindle 1.0–not even the first or most innovative of ebook readers–I keep seeing bloggers and other Web folk (many of them librarians or engineers who should know better) spouting off opinions like “why not just…
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