Well, we finished reading Anathem, Neal Stephenson’s new, 960-page novel thanks to our Kindle (thoughts on Anathem TK). The Kindle is so light (it weighs some 10 ounces with its ten or so books and 2 daily-delivered newspapers) and easy for me to handle that it goes everywhere – CalTrain, S.F. Muni, treadmill at the gym, bed at night. As a result I use a lot of former downtime reading – as soon as I finished Anathem, I returned to Collapse, Jared Diamond’s study of civilizations that have previously crashed. Kindle remembered the page I was on when Anathem came out…
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