Kindle and the Future of Reading

Nicholson Baker doesn’t much like the Kindle:

Amazon, with its listmania lists and its sometimes inspired recommendations and its innumerable fascinating reviews, is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at making things.

Instead, he prefers an iPhone or iPod Touch for his e-book reading.

I’ve never used a Kindle, but I have read a book on an iPod Touch. I found the reading experience good but not great, and the small pages forced more page turning than I’d have liked. I’d wait until I had something larger, like Apple’s rumored tablet, before again reading in e-book form anything longer than a short story or novella.

Jul. 28, 2009 apple ebooks kindle publishing