Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Kindle - Gods Gift to Mankind or Diabolic Spawn of Satan? Etc

- Friday, December 11The New Yinzer presents poets John Grochalski and Ally Malinenko
"for an evening of poesy slinging." Also on tap for the evening are the local favorites Ed Steck, Renee Alberts, Margaret Bashaar, Joel W. Coggins, and Jessica Fenlon.


Where: ModernFormations 4919 Penn Ave.

When: 8pm

Cover: $5 or a contribution to our potluck dinner

More info at http://tnypresents.blogspot.com/

-  I don't know, you may disagree, but for some reason a Kindle just seems morally wrong.  You can't write notes on it, or underline something that sticks out, there's no way of interacting with the text, and that is primarily the joy of reading for me.  A play or a movie is what I consider the text "performing" for the audience, and a novel or short story is more of a conversation with the reader.  You can't talk to a stupid machine.

-  Well, there were some exceptions:



-  How much would you be willing to pay for inspiration / useless piece of junk?

*  Although the man did write a pretty sweet book about trying to survive in a freezing, desolute Post-Apocalyptic world / Western Pennsylvania

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