I,robot book trailer (Howard S. Smith's I,robot Sept 2008)

Book trailer (from book flaps; this is not a suspense-like theatrical trailer; purpose is to see if you want to read the book or not): Howard S. Smith's I,robot (Publication Date of book: September 2008. ISBN 978-1-894689-06-9 ) Technothriller. Japanese detective stumbles onto deployment of military robots. Cutting-edge technology. Fast read.

BOOKS ARE LIKE HORSES

Example at left is a recent (June 9-16) screen of The New Yorker by graphic novelist Adrian Tomaine. Her cartoon is entitled “The Booklovers” and illustrates a bookstore possessor/employee opening the bookstore and glancing off to the side at his next door neighbor as she is receiving a carton from amazon.com (which may be hard to read from the smallness of this explore in depth) - there is also a slightly pained look of contrition on the neighbor’s face who presumably realizes this awkward moment and the wreck inflicted on her neighbor.

The introduction of the Foment device by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was a fresh front cover Time and Newsweek tech/apparatus sensation both magazines were fast to fawn over.  “But if all goes well for Amazon, several years from now we’ll see revamped Kindles, equipped with color screens and other features, selling for much less. And corporal bookstores, like the shuttered Keep Records of today, will be lonelier places, as digital reading thrusts us into an heady—and jarring—post-Gutenberg era.” Steven Levy, “The Time to come of Reading” Newsweek

A new interview with Bezos describes the individual faults of reading old fashioned books like “tender fatigue” and the obnoxious “tawdry” sounds of turning pages. But what about the insulting odor of books, their bulky size and the outlandish space they consume?  I’m tried there are many more shortcomings we could pin on the book. Maybe they are by a hair's breadth too difficult to read in this day and age. Who needs ‘em?  — but before we put this “old mare” to sleep, lets announce some more words of wisdom from Bezos the major early champion of the book, who recently said, “In some ways the Web is the most portentous book in the world”.