by Jamie Chavez | Jan 12, 2012 | Miscellany
I do love reading on my Kindle. It’s physically easier (especially when I’m lying in bed), and faster. So why is it that I still would rather own the book? I’m mean, I’m well on my way to having a book storage problem (again). So … why? Help me, Obi-Wan. Well, I think...
by Jamie Chavez | Nov 26, 2011 | The Book Biz
This was written a year ago, but it’s still relevant. I remember an impassioned eulogy for the typewriter delivered years ago by one of my newspaper colleagues: how, he asked, could we write on a keyboard that made no sound? Just fine, it turned out. And you wonder...
by Jamie Chavez | Oct 20, 2011 | Miscellany
You know I love my Kindle. I’ve written about it more than once (here and here, for starters). But it has its limits. It’s not my preferred way to read nonfiction, for example, because I like underlining too much. (I know that I can “highlight” in the Kindle, but it’s...
by Jamie Chavez | Sep 8, 2011 | The Book Biz
A few weeks ago, if you were paying close attention, you’ll have noticed that I said something mildly derogatory about my Kindle, to wit: “I’m the sort of reader who, as the larger story begins to reveal itself, likes to go back to the beginning and look at little...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 7, 2011 | The Book Biz
As if self-publishing didn’t already have an image problem—after all, once called the “vanity press,” this is an industry that’s progressed through “self-publishing” to, now, the “indie press” and even “private publishing,” which I just adore, it’s so dignified—now...
