Results tagged “kindle”

LA is a gadget kind of town. We’re also, it seems, swiftly becoming quite the literary town. And so, as the year draws nigh and you scramble around the city trying to score the latest whatever for your loved ones this holiday season, it would be wrong of us to ignore Kindle.

Amazon's new revolutionary way to read books blows chunks. How do we know? Because we ignored this week's Newsweek cover story puff piece on the Kindle, and paid attention to the web. Type "kindle sucks" into Google and see what you get. It's not pretty. "The Kindle sucks goat ball sack", says one Twitterer named Dean. Cory from BoingBoing warns of the Awful crap that will soon doom the device and wonders why "Amazon,...