Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers, and welcome back from the long weekend.

For your amusement today, a potpourri of technology-related articles:

• Turning Page, E-Books Start to Take Hold. My take: we’ll see about this.  How much of this marketing hype, and how much of this is real, especially since, as the article claims, Amazon.com won’t release sales numbers for the Kindle?  I still don’t think that the e-book will completely replace the physical codex.  I do think it’s possible — in fact, it’s desirable — that both forms co-exist.  I’m still not sold on the hype that I should buy some several hundred dollar gizmo that needs to be replaced every 18 months merely because of its novelty when I can just buy a book and enjoy it without having to worry about connectivity, software compatibility, battery life, etc.

• Is Google’s culture grab unstoppable? Monopoly Money from Digital Books.  This is an anti-Google piece worth considering.

A hat-tip to Garrett Eastman’s Library News & Notes for these articles.