Back to thr Future of Fiction

[David Morris]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/oct/07/back-to-future-fiction

For the last week or so the front of Amazon.co.uk has been proclaiming
the launch of the new Kindle e-reader. Apparently it's the "smallest,
lightest, fastest, most affordable Kindle yet", with "faster page
turns", a screen that "reads like real paper" and "free cloud backup".
But, as Bill Ray points out on the Register , the new slimline body is
missing a vital feature: the keyboard.

It seems that instead of doing "things that the book could never do"
of becoming a "new way of interacting with textual content … [which]
invited consumer participation", instead of making the reading
community part of the writing process, people have been using the
Kindle to, erm, "read books, lots of books".