I just read an interview conducted in the country to Philip Roth in 2008, I found a file as a hyperlink on the subject of his latest novel [1], where it says that the screens have beaten the books. Computers, televisions, DVD and movie theaters are a much more fun, he says, because they no longer have the time or solitude to read a book.
Then I came to mind IPad, this new device that Apple just released with such fanfare paraphernalia and even the less interested "blissful ignorance" could not be kept separate.
and is very pretty and superútil Touch and trendy, and as Apple know what they know, they put a lot of marketing and color to the matter and released a price for American pocket: $ 400 or so. It also serves for almost anything, even to read, yes, to read.
The first time I read about these new "tablet PC" was on the blog of Ivan Thays. He spoke of the Amazon Kindle and its desire to arrive in English to travel without overweight luggage, because the Kindle can store 1500 books and is tiny. Very useful! Then Lucia
almost buy one for Christmas. Luckily he did not. Why? I have my books on paper, do not travel much and if I do it is to enjoy the trip and read little. Buying books out? I do not need. I live in Europe and come here first, then to Latin America. I refuse to Kindle.
The IPAD, however, and it comes with everything else. Touch screen, internal light, multimedia, a million gadgets and Wi-Fi and 3G, though, they say, with a handicap that may be overcome in the future: it is not multitasking. If the data is wrong correct me.
'll buy the "iPad? Who knows. For now, no. I have two computers at home, work all day in an office facing a twenty inch screen and a telephone keeps ringing, I have a new TV big enough, the best gift, finally, this Christmas-Lucia I connect the laptop with HDMI cable and when I'm leaving out a book in his suitcase. Enough. However
future I will have no choice but to purchase one of these devices. Because it just so and mourn the River. Part of go together, or at least a couple of steps behind the technology. For now I'm happy with my books piled up at home, my notes in Word. Cutting down trees just enough to not live in sin.
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[1] The humiliation of Philip Roth, Editorial Mondadori (2010), a book coming out these days and it appears in my list of books for purchase later this month.
