Amazon’s 7″ Kindle Fire tablet will sell for $199 — less than half the cost of Apple’s cheapest iPad. The color, touch-screen tablet will run Google’s Android software and have access to Amazon’s app store, streaming movies and TV shows. Additionally, Amazon’s announced the launch of the $99 Kindle Touch, and has reduced the price of the standard Kindle to $79.
Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, Low Price Kindle
Au Contraire!
"It’s not easy to choose only five books, so I made up my mind and decided to mention the five I can’t help reading again, once in a while, because they are still here for me today." Here's a list of five necessary French books that you should be reading, including works by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Marguerite Duras.
2 comments:
Add Your Comment: Cancel reply
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
iMortality
What would happen if you had a clock to countdown the exact number of days until you died? Our own Mark O'Connell discovers the paranoia of having the Days of Life app measure his mortality at The New Yorker. "Days of Life functions like a reductio ad absurdum of the logic of personal productivity. The pie chart becomes a special way of being afraid: an image of the self as a micro-economy of numbered days." For a more uplifting version of O'Connell, check out his 2013 Year in Reading post.
●
●
Poetry is Back (or it Never Left)
●
●
Notes from the Melbourne Writers Festival
“If DBC Pierre wasn’t twelve scotches into a bender before he went on stage, I have lost a substantial wager.” Notes from the Melbourne Writers Festival, at the Electric Literature blog.
●
●
Digital Nation
Point: "Repeated surveys show that children spend less time reading than did previous generations. They instead devote many hours of their waking lives to electronic screens of one kind or another." Counterpoint: "Generation Y, those born between 1979 and 1989, spent the most money on books in 2011, taking over long-held book-buying leadership from baby boomers...with 43 percent of GenY's purchases going to online channels, they are adding momentum to the industry shift to digital." Conclusion?
●
●
Do you know if you can watch movies on the kindle fire while offline?