by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 29, 2010 | Commentary, Featured, iPad
The iPad screen is not your desktop screen | via Craig Mod Great bit by Craig Mod on reading, the iPad, and why reading on the iPad, or any other dedicated reading device, is distinctly different than reading the same book on your computer screen. The fourth point...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 12, 2010 | Asides
Not that the dictionary next to my bed isn’t working and not that I was going to stop reading DFW because he makes me work, but: Touch and hold any word to look it up in the built-in dictionary or Wikipedia, or to search for it throughout the book and on the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 27, 2009 | Asides
It’s unlikely that I’ll fork over the cash necessary to buy a Kindle 2, but I do love Stanza on my iPhone. Review: Stanza for iPhone Review | via Macworld.
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 26, 2008 | Asides
It’s unnecessary for me to say anything. Just read it. The last days of David Foster Wallace | Salon Books.
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 14, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts, Writing
Or a misguided fear of a dangerous mind… I was intrigued (or maybe that’s incensed) recently by an essay in Newsweek about The Dangerous Book for Boys—an Amazon bestseller and a book that my nine-year-old son, since receiving it for his birthday less...
