Anathem, yet again

Posted on October 2, 2008
Filed Under All, Technology, New Life |

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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  1. Adrian Midgley on October 10th, 2008 9:58 am

    Anathem is pretty good. I bought a copy in LA, having left the UK before it was available and passed through Australasia without finding one. It lasted well beyond the flight home.

    Makes Cryptonomicon look simple. And light.

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