Comments on: Long-term implications of the Kindle http://www.itwriting.com/blog/410-long-term-implications-of-the-kindle.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/410-long-term-implications-of-the-kindle.html/comment-page-1#comment-47931 Clyde Davies Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:24:37 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=410#comment-47931 I've just had another thought: How well does the Kindle deliver technical information? Until Donald Knuth devised TeX, it used to be the case that typesetting of mathematics was hideously expensive. Mow many maths textbooks are typeset in TeX through preference. Kindle might well succeed if it can deliver this kind of material when it is used mainly as a reference source. I’ve just had another thought: How well does the Kindle deliver technical information? Until Donald Knuth devised TeX, it used to be the case that typesetting of mathematics was hideously expensive. Mow many maths textbooks are typeset in TeX through preference.

Kindle might well succeed if it can deliver this kind of material when it is used mainly as a reference source.

]]> By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/410-long-term-implications-of-the-kindle.html/comment-page-1#comment-47465 Clyde Davies Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:31:17 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=410#comment-47465 In the circles I move in, a well-stocked library with shelves double- or even triple-parked is a badge of pride. Likewise, I'm always a bit sniffy about households that give the latest flat-screen telly pride of place yet don't have a single book on show. And just think what would have happened if Ray Bradbury were writing at a future time when the Kindle had supplanted the printed word. How would have the awful scenes of book-burning in Fahrenheit 451 have been rendered then? Perhaps it's called the 'Kindle' because it's meant to achieve the metaphorical effect of book burning? No more lovely, smelly old bound volumes reeking of glue and leather. No more chocolate stains and dog-eared pages.... In the circles I move in, a well-stocked library with shelves double- or even triple-parked is a badge of pride. Likewise, I’m always a bit sniffy about households that give the latest flat-screen telly pride of place yet don’t have a single book on show.

And just think what would have happened if Ray Bradbury were writing at a future time when the Kindle had supplanted the printed word. How would have the awful scenes of book-burning in Fahrenheit 451 have been rendered then? Perhaps it’s called the ‘Kindle’ because it’s meant to achieve the metaphorical effect of book burning? No more lovely, smelly old bound volumes reeking of glue and leather. No more chocolate stains and dog-eared pages….

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