Boston Globe: Paper good, screen better?
Paper vs. computer screen. Discussing the Kindle: “All you are aware of is the next page, you don’t get this feeling that you are coming to the end of the book. It’s like being plunged directly into the author’s content.”
Comments:
I think eventually Kindle-style will mate with Tablet, and become “Big Newton.” If I’m going to haul something like that around, I want to be able to write notes on it. And I mean hand-write.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 06/19/09 at 05:15 PM
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Been looking forward to trying one so I too can “feel” the difference.
And of course the intangible parts of “the reading experience” is effected by the totality - otherwise why did publishers agonize over Garamond vs Century Gothic?
Why trimmed and untrimmed pages?
And as a reader - “how close to the end of the chapter” is a couple of quick flips, “shall I stay up late finishing” is a question of heft.
But we always talk about these tools implicitly meaning pleasure reading.
How does the Sony or the Kindle go to work? I still use ring binders for reference material - I know how deep to go into a pile for the content I need. I can grab that memo based on my visual memory of the text layout on the page. Or because I stapled the “off-side” accidentally.