http://www.armandofox.com/geek/2010/07/why-borders-and-other-big-book-retail-bookstores-are-fcuked/ A breadth-first traversal of life Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:41:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.armandofox.com/geek/2010/07/why-borders-and-other-big-book-retail-bookstores-are-fcuked/comment-page-1/#comment-843 Jeff Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:06:53 +0000 http://www.armandofox.com/geek/?p=286#comment-843 Have you read the Eudeamonic Pie? Ten years ago my boss lent me his copy (paper based) and I loved it. It's about a bunch of physics grad students from some Cal school (can't remember which) who tried to write a program that would use physics to predict where a roulette ball would land -- then they tried to stuff it in a shoe. Of course this was before we had compilers so they talk about the early days of trying to debug code on hardware. Maybe this is a cult favorite around you, but I'm in Chicago, so I'd never heard of it until my boss mentioned it. By the way, I'm surprised you've never mentioned the sony reader. I've had the PRS-505 for over two years now (I bought it for "cheap" when it was the previous years model). My wife and I fought over who got to use it the entire six months we were traveling around latin america so I recently got her the newer pocket addition refurbished on woot. Problem solved -- no more fighting =) The UI is a bit awkward, but as long as you just plan on using it to read books it works great -- no wasted space for a keyboard like the kindle... Have you read the Eudeamonic Pie? Ten years ago my boss lent me his copy (paper based) and I loved it. It’s about a bunch of physics grad students from some Cal school (can’t remember which) who tried to write a program that would use physics to predict where a roulette ball would land — then they tried to stuff it in a shoe. Of course this was before we had compilers so they talk about the early days of trying to debug code on hardware. Maybe this is a cult favorite around you, but I’m in Chicago, so I’d never heard of it until my boss mentioned it.
By the way, I’m surprised you’ve never mentioned the sony reader. I’ve had the PRS-505 for over two years now (I bought it for “cheap” when it was the previous years model). My wife and I fought over who got to use it the entire six months we were traveling around latin america so I recently got her the newer pocket addition refurbished on woot. Problem solved — no more fighting =) The UI is a bit awkward, but as long as you just plan on using it to read books it works great — no wasted space for a keyboard like the kindle…

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