Nicholson Baker tries to love the Kindle e-book reader:
True, the name of the product wasn’t so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time—worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft’s Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.
-- "Kindle and the Future of Reading," The New Yorker, Aug. 3, 2009
Baker did not find the product itself delightful. He preferred reading on the iPod Touch; switching from it to the Kindle 2 "was like going from a Mini Cooper to a white 1982 Impala with blown shocks."
Read my December 2008 post about how the Kindle got its name.
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Posted by: Anees | August 02, 2009 at 04:50 PM