Summer Books Bonanza and that Kindle Piece

Like books? You are going to love love love love love this section, with authors aplenty telling you what books they love, which ones they're sorry they finished, which ones they've never finished. Plus this year's great beach reads; literary pull quotes, books on the horizon and those authors you really, really should be reading. Plus my take on Kindle, all courtesy of City Arts Magazine (which puts out three editions, Seattle, Tacoma and Eastside, so pick on up, will ya?)

Comments

[Loren]

Good take on the Kindle. I'm also addicted to the whole culture/feel/smell of books... but then, I'm also over 40 and can remember a house without TV. But some books I don't want to own. "My Antonia," yes. "The Third Reich at War," no: even though it's great, I just gave it away after spending a good two weeks with it. The Kindle would be great for TTRAW, although I never would really own the book in the sense that I could pass it along to someone, which I have always done with "transitory" reads.
The Kindle is an evolutionary branch that will pass along its genes to a much more robust and versatile machine. There's no reason why there can't be a device that reads like a Kindle but also renders Flash, displays great color, plays music and spoken word as well as movies, TV shows, etc. This machine must be larger that an ITouch but smaller than a Kindle. Like a good phone and unlike the ITouch its battery must be swappable. Certainly it can be made to collect and manage e-mail.
This dream machine may be closer than we think.

[Zev]

I agree with David Wagoner about Alan Furst. I heard about Furst here, about 6 months ago (from Lizzy, maybe?), and I've been through his oeuvre once since, and am on my second round. What a delicious writer.