Wednesday Links 10-7-2009
- After a week off, let’s get right to business. First: ereaders. Best Buy and Verizon are teaming up on one of the competitively priced iRex models. Read more here. The Hexaglot supposedly will have handwriting recognition, which would be awesome, if a little unnecessary, if it worked. Despite appearances, the Biblio is not primarily a phone, and the Cybook Opus finally ships. How much will you bet the AUO will be a POS with broken firmware and cheap plastic?
- Elsewhere in books, Google’s book battle has gone international, while Amazon’s has settled. Aptara and friends are working on a mysterious “solution” to iPhone books. Gormet threw in the napkin, and so did Philly’s libraries. I like what this guy’s got to say about ebook price points, though his bar may be a tad low. Disney books have gone digital, and Simon & Schuster “invented” the vook, but nobody cares.
- Two of my favorite authors in a blender! Check out Nabokov’s notes on Kafka’s work. Also Kafka-related from Boing Boing, reading his work improves learning? UPDATE: Hilary Mantel has been named the winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize.
- Finally, the fun. Levi Johnston finally uses protection? And while we can all chuckle at this quick Zelda animation, only true dorks can appreciated this apparent infusion of Mother 3 into Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (bonus points if you know the answer to Tomato’s Bubble Monkey question).
