Hello, all,
Check out this article from the New Yorker, "Twilight of the Books." Fascinating.
http://tinyurl.com/ywgyah
Lynn Foltz, Upper School Librarian
Sanford School
Hockessin, DE
foltzl@sanfordschool.org
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Kathy Berg
Sent: Wed 1/16/2008 3:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [LM_NET] FYI Steve Jobs NYT 1/15 /08
I just read about this Amazon Kindle book reader, and this is the first
e-book I've been excited about. I think it will succeed and students
will read even more than they do now. Time is always a factor, however.
If students are given time to pleasure read in high-school (like they
are given in elementary and middle school), they will continue to read
throughout their lifetimes...
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[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Koreis
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:40 PM
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Subject: Re: FYI Steve Jobs NYT 1/15 /08
Does he potentially have an interest in seeing Kindle fail? Where did
he
get the stat and who is counted? Not that it's a large part of the
population, but I didn't read for pleasure while I was in grad school.
No
time. And what is meant by book? Did the survey (if there actually was
one) consider any book or just "literature"? Why does it have to be a
book?
Kindle can be used for any text and I have friends who do plenty of
reading, just not cover to cover books.
Bob Koreis
Librarian
Hockinson High School
bob.koreis@hock.k12.wa.us
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple
where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the
bound
book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of
Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place
where
history comes to life. Norman Cousins
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From: librarychickie <yasumani@VERIZON.NET>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:09:01 -0800
Subject: [LM_NET] FYI Steve Jobs NYT 1/15 /08
Forgive me if this was posted:
When discussing new technologies he made this reference to Amazons
Kindle
book reader.
"Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including
the
Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely
because
Americans have stopped reading.
"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that
people don't read anymore," he said. "Forty percent of the people in
the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed
at
the top because people don't read anymore."
"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus - Greek-born, Roman
slave/philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD)
Kristina Politis Fallon, LMS
Robert Morris School
South Bound Brook NJ
yasumani@verizon.net
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