sunday salon: welcome to my Kindle!
The big news: I got a Kindle for Christmas! I was surprised; I cried. I profusely thanked nomadreaderboy! To no one's surprise, I love it! It has already changed my reading. First, I read the New York Times again. It's delivered automatically each morning when it hits the newsstand. It's wonderful to roll over and start reading the paper in bed each morning. Then, when the paper is finished, I click into the book I'm reading. As someone who used to carry at least one book (what if I finished it? I had to have something else to read) along with the paper and the New Yorker around, it's amazing to have all three in one place. In honor of my Kindle, here are a few bookish articles I read and enjoyed: Small Publisher Found It's Mission in Translation (12/26/09) - a fascinating look at Open Letter Books , a small publisher who only publishes translated works, which is a dying industry in the U.S. I have a copy of Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi, which is p...