Blogging is the New Closure

I used the iPhone's "Kindle" app to purchase and enjoy My Revolutions, the first fiction I've read in a long time. I read a lot of scripting manuals (but do very little real development) and I read about 3000 pages of baseball predictions and notes a year (sadly, this is not an exaggeration). The book was excellent!

Once I settled on a font size (that sounds ridiculous) the text was very easy to read, at home, on the subway, or before going to sleep. I did have some pretty severe Kindle envy on the B train tonight, but I regained my focus quickly.

I have one major complaint: I found the act of finishing the book unsatisfying; after paging through 4393 "locations" (the Kindle doesn't entertain the conceit of page numbers) I missed the satisfaction of closing the volume one final time. The application resisted my impotent flicks, always returning to the final page.

Comments

[triciawang]

david when you get to the last page - is there any kind of fanfare to try reproduce the feeling of finishing a book? any digital displays of books dancing or a animation of book pages being flipped through?

[Mark Simmons]

Interesting.

I've resisted the Kindle so far because 1.) I love paper books deeply, 2) I'm into last century's model (http://lastyearsmodel.org/), and 3.) because I also waste an inordinate amount of time not reading fiction and looking at box scores.