A tale of two mediums: Despite the iPad, traditional books aren’t going anywhere.

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A tale of two mediums: Despite the iPad, traditional books aren’t going anywhere.: Over on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, writer–and reader–Michael Grothaus compares reading a novel both in its traditional, printed format with reading it on the iPad. For his experiment he read alternating chapters of the same novel in paperback and in the iPad’s […]

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Is it creepy that Amazon is tracking most-highlighted Kindle passages?

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Is it creepy that Amazon is tracking most-highlighted Kindle passages? – CSMonitor.com: In a blog for the Christian Science Monitor Rebekah Denn asks, “Do you think Amazon is invading privacy by tracking which passages readers most often highlight on their Kindles?” What she says about the most-quoted books may surprise you, but don’t forget that

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Book review: Ron Charles reviews ‘The Lake Shore Limited,’ by Sue Miller

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Book review: Ron Charles reviews ‘The Lake Shore Limited,’ by Sue Miller: I didn’t much like Sue Miller’s first novel, The Good Mother. “But what did she EXPECT would happen?” I kept asking myself. “What was she thinking?” As a result, I haven’t read any of Miller’s subsequent novels. But Ron Charles’s review of Miller’s

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In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic

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In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic – NYTimes.com: By the end of his life, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had achieved fame as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, a globe-trotting lecturer and, of course, the literary genius who wrote ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ and other works under the name Mark Twain.

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Books | Sherman Alexie wins PEN/Faulkner award for fiction, for ‘War Dances’

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Books | Sherman Alexie wins PEN/Faulkner award for fiction, for ‘War Dances’ | Seattle Times Newspaper: Seattle author Sherman Alexie has added another award to his groaning shelf of literary trophies — the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction for his book of short stories, essays and poems, ‘War Dances’ (Grove Press). The prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award

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March Madness reading list: 10 best books about college basketball

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March Madness reading list: 10 best books about college basketball / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: If you’d rather read about basketball than spend hours watching in, Marjorie Kehe offers her list of the 10 best reads. I can’t help but notice, though, that, although the title of this article is “10 Best Books

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Book Review: Three new novels extend the beloved stories of Jane Austen

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Book Review: Three new novels extend the beloved stories of Jane Austen – washingtonpost.com: Fifteen years ago the name Jane Austen resonated mainly with earnest high school students and any of their elders who remembered the 1940 black-and-white ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ adapted by Aldous Huxley and starring Laurence Olivier. Then the literary tectonic plates shifted.

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Book review: ‘This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All’

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Book review: ‘This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All,’ by Marilyn Johnson – washingtonpost.com: In researching her previous book, ‘The Dead Beat,’ which celebrates the pleasures of obituaries, Marilyn Johnson discovered that, with few exceptions, ‘the most engaging obit subjects were librarians.’ Motivated by ‘the idea that libraries were where

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