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Novelists On the E-Book Experience

Posted by timothy on from the war-and-peace-batteries-dead-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How is reading different on a Kindle, a Nook, or an iPhone? The NY Times asked two writers what they thought. Joseph Finder, the author of thrillers, misses the indices compiled by humans and finds it annoying the way that all of the fonts are the same. Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels, actually likes the simplicity because he can concentrate on the words themselves. And then there's the issue of monopoly, which must give the authors the willies."

2 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. I foresee... by srussia · · Score: 4, Funny

    a revival of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books.

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  2. Index? by rjstanford · · Score: 4, Funny

    An index? In a thriller? How does that normally work?

    killer, identity of - page 274
    tension, sexual, relief of - page 102
    gun, finding of - page 79

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