The biblioblogosphere is all twittery about the new Kindle thing from Amazon.
I’m not. Looks like the same old, same old to me. I don’t see what’s changed about the gadget or the legal and social environment that’s going to make this thing a success.
Wake me if I turn out to be wrong.
(Also, four hundred smackers? Um, no.)
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He querido más vivir en mi pequeña casa, exenta y señora, que no en sus ricos palacios, sojuzgada y cativa.
—Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina
(I prefer living in my little house, free and my own mistress, to living in their rich palaces, downtrodden and wretched.)
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