1) Read article* 2) See book discussed at bottom of article 3) Search for book on Amazon 4) Find Kindle edition, send 1st chapter to my Kindle 5) Read first chapter to determine if it's worth reading I actually set aside half an hour today to read. And the nice thing with the Kindle is I can take it out to my marvelous deck, sit in the full sun, listen to headphones and read. So keep that in mind when I say I'm currently plugging through the new edition of Gaia's Garden: http://www.amazon.com/Gaias-Garden-Second-Home-Scale-Permacu... (My wife pointed out that we own two copies of the previous edition, one paperback and one hardcover; I pointed out that yeah, we do, but I've never picked them up until I read the first chapter on Kindle) ...and have lined up the following: http://www.amazon.com/Methland-Death-American-Small-ebook/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Know-Who-You-Are-What/dp/1451650515/re... http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Destruction-Medicine-Revoluti... http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Disgusting-Unraveling-Mysteries-... http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Apart-State-America-1960-2010/d... http://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/159780... Note that I recently finished this: http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Garage-ebook/dp/B0061UC83A/ref=sr... (free!) And this, as an audiobook: http://www.amazon.com/End-Food-Paul-Roberts/dp/0547085974/re... Both of which I highly recommend. End of Food is... pretty damn boring in the middle but when he's not talking about USDA tables he's pretty interesting. *An observer will note that most of these titles have been mentioned on Hubski in the past couple weeks. Also worth noting: I torrented these rather than buying them because fuck those prices: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_7?url=search-alias%...
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I guess the battery life would be a lot shorter, but is it really easier to read on the kindle screen than a glass-covered LCD?
I had a very rough time reading on LCD based displays (iPad in my case) for any stretch of time. To elaborate, I found myself having headaches if I read on it for more than an hour. With the Kindle, I can read for hours on in and not have any issues.
http://hubski.com/pub?id=6171 I recently finished Anna Karenina, and was going to read that but I couldn't get it on Kindle. I had The Hobbit laying around, and I decided to read it again. I hadn't read it since about the 7th grade. I'm going to pick up the dead tree version of Mythago Wood this week. That will be my next read. If you haven't read Broca's Brain by Carl Sagan, I highly recommend that. That's one I often recommend to people. Most of his other stuff is very good, but that one has the most personality, IMO. I'm trying to think of the book I just put behind Mythago Wood... recently recommended to me. Oh, I need to read Slaughterhouse Five. I've never read it. It's one of those that fell through the cracks. If you haven't read any John Irving, read A Prayer for Owen Meany. I didn't love it, but it really sticks with you. Dave Egger's You Shall Know Our Velocity is a brilliant book that isn't mentioned enough.
The books seemed similar in their treatment of Pierre Bezukhov in W&P and Konstantin Levin in AK, regarding their search for meaning, which I enjoyed. Unfortunately, I don't think my translation of AK was as good as the version of W&P I read. I was at a friend's house, and picked up his version of AK. It was much better. Maybe that could have had some affect on your feelings about the book. BTW, color photo of Tolstoy!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:L.N.Tolstoy_Prokudin-Gorsk...
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One I would suggest, if you can get your hands on it, is "The Life and Death of Lenin," by Robert Payne. Easy to read, but digestion is tough, and full of interesting facts— he had, at the time of his writing, some of Lenin's hand-written notes to draw from.
The Kindle app on my phone has proven very useful in reading long books. Underworld is about 800 pages, so it's nice to be able to read a chapter or two while on the bus, train or toilet without having to actually lug the big thing around. Sorry, Franzen -- that's a convenience I just can't give up.
I think its interesting to read Rand's point of view especially while our current culture is demonizing those who are similar to the protaganists in the book.
And this. http://inventwithpython.com/
Sadly I've only read 3 of the books on the list (The Great Gastby, Moby Dick, and Great Expectations). I need to change that.