Forgot to post the link to an interesting piece in the
Telegraph yesterday by A.N.Wilson in response to the launch of Amazon’s Kindle. The Kindle, which I have also neglected to post about is Amazon’s ebook reader. Apparently it can do the same for reading that the iPod has done for music. Hold on though isn’t that exactly the line that Sony spun when it launched its eReader product earlier this year?
Wilson is right about one thing which is that the book is such a good design it is hard to top it with an electronic version:
“The book, in codex shape, really was a brilliant invention. And after the century of Gutenberg and Caxton there really was no looking back.”
It is a point that has been made before and one no doubt that will be raised in the future when the next ebook reader is launched…
