TKC 509 Séamus Bellamy
Episode description
Traveler, teller of tales, reviewer of eReaders
Interview starts at 15:25 and ends at 41:53
“To be honest, I haven’t met one person outside tech nerds like myself that use it [Kindle’s X-Ray feature.] I very rarely use it. I kind of go ‘Let’s see what this is about.” I think it takes away from the immersion of reading. If I’m interested in something I’ll take a look at it later on, but during the reading process I don’t really want to leave.”
News
Jeff Bezos interviewed in Berlin by Mathias Dopfner at Business Insider - April 28, 2018
The Post (2017) at Prime Video
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Tech Tip
“Google’s ‘Talk to Books’ Might Have Just Changed Everything” by Bradley Metrock at Digital Book World - April 15, 2018
Content
Amazon’s new Prime Book Box program for young readers
Interview with Séamus Bellamy
Basic Kindle, Paperwhite, and Oasis
ReMarkable tablet
Seamus Bellamy articles at USA Today’s Reviewed site, BoingBoing, Macworld and PCWorld
Comments
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Next Week’s Guest
James Fallows and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, to be released on May 8, 2018 by Pantheon. (Note: this episode will be released on Wednesday to coincide with the book’s release, instead of the usual episode upload on Friday.)
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