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...know how the monk feels, because I have on my desk the would-be successor to the book. It's called the Sony Reader, and it's designed to do for the book what the iPod did for music: that is, usher it, skipping gaily, into the paradise of portable digital consumption. The Reader is a sleek, soigné little object--you can almost sense it trying to look literary, as though it should come with a decanter of sherry as a USB peripheral. Although it's slightly smaller and thinner than a trade paperback, one Sony Reader can hold about...
...Reader is merely the tangible expression of a kind of technological Manifest Destiny. Just about everybody in both the entertainment and the technology worlds believes that it is the fate of all media to shed their analog past and transubstantiate into pure data. Newspapers are becoming websites, photos are becoming JPEGs, and songs are becoming MP3s. But what does this great digital awakening mean for the book? To find out, I--as the only person in the U.S. who has never read Khaled Hosseini--downloaded his novel onto a Sony Reader. Kite Runner, meet Blade Runner...
Lady Justice, evidently not an US Weekly reader, has ruled against professional celebrity PARIS HILTON, sentencing her to 45 days in jail for driving with a suspended license. Celebrity blogsite DEFAMER mock-gasps at the decision, which it claims "has shaken our faith in celebrity slap-on-the-wrist justice." SCORE...
...also receive a lot of requests from my readers, asking that I write about certain topics that they suggest. The subject of today’s column, for instance, was suggested in the comments section of thecrimson.com by a young man named Anonymous. I’m a little confused as to why he was so generous this time in proposing such a good topic to me, as usually Anonymous is one of my most outspoken critics. Another reader, “Jim from Lowell House,” sent me a request to write about the urinal...
...Crimson readers, keep the questions, comments, and suggestions coming. I know that I, along with the other columnists, love hearing what you have to say. Positive feedback is great because it’s always nice to know that a few people besides our parents are actually reading our columns. Negative feedback is equally as important, as it helps us identify areas of our writing that we need to improve. I, for instance, need to improve on “not sucking”, according to “Sean from Kirkland House.” Also, feel free...