Associated Press Wirephoto, Model 6000, S/N 6148We spend a lot of time here at Book Patrol talking about how technology is affecting the book and newspaper world. Tonight Jeff Bezos continues his Kindle 2 media tour with a stop on Nightline where he boldly claims that "books in their current form are becoming obsolete" and that "over time E-books will be the only way people read books." Only time will tell if the book as a physical object will become extinct. What is in danger of becoming extinct in our lifetime; however, is the printed newspaper.Interestingly enough, we are currently...
A Public Display of the Kindle
With all the press and hype that has surrounded the life of Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 you would have thought that by now I would have seen at least one of them floating around the streets of Seattle; after all it is Amazon's home court. But I haven't seen one yet. I have seen it on Oprah, on the Daily Show, and on Jimmy Fallon's new late night show but not on the bus, in the streets, or at any friends house.Brier Dudley, the tech writer for the Seattle Times, got a Kindle 2 from Amazon to test drive....
Wall Street to Library Street : The Trickle Death Approach
I saw somewhere that the America has lost Our country's debt is 11 trillion dollars in the lastThe Oregon Historical Library
Girl Trouble in 1899
Found in a copy of the Vignette Edition of the Poems by John G.[reenleaf] Whittier. Published in 1893 by the Frederick A. Stokes Company and illustrated by William A. McCullough. It really would have been something if it was stashed between pp. 98-102 where the poem "The New Wife and the Old" resides.
Required Viewing
Recently, CBS Sunday Morning gave us 6 minutes of Bibliomania at it's finest with this report from Paris.It begins with a trip to the apartment of a self-professed bibliomaniac. This guy is first ballot.Then we get some time with the dynamic duo of John Baxter and Martin Stone.Baxter gives us a little evolutionary history of one type of collector; the modern firsts collector - how one goes from simply a reader - to hardcover first edition- to a signed copy - to advanced proofs. As Baxter says in his 2003 book chronicling his biblio-escapades, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of...