April 29, 2005

The Future of Reading

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Is this the future of books? It's a flat-panel e-book reader, supposedly with insanely good resolution. Jason Kottke reports that it was just like reading a book. Though the downside is Sony's copyright management (60 days tops) and small storage space (10 MB).

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April 28, 2005

Literary Mapping

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Take a literary tour of New York and visit the haunts of fictional characters, assuming the haunts aren't fictional. Randy Cohen suggests mapping the characters of New York for a fictional sight-seeing trip.

Sounds like fun. How about somebody do my town?

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