Just a little point of interest: I guess this has been out for a little over a month now, but I just came across this blog post about Amazon's linking of Audible audiobooks and Kindle e-books. As the blog post author points out, this could bring some interesting changes for academics, in that it might allow the kinds of note taking practices we normally associate with written text to become associated with audible text. Perhaps that can be related to much older practices of reading and composition that we discussed in class (e.g., having a slave read a book out loud)?
(On an only tangentially related note, I'm also indebted to that original blog post for pointing out to me that most citizens of the Star Wars galaxy are probably totally illiterate. Humorous, of course, but also an interesting train of thought regarding the political implications of the changes we've been discussing.)
Out of curiosity--do those of you who take notes on a Kindle or other ereadery thing do so in words and phrases? (In other words, does anyone else use a shorthand of arrows and squiggly lines in their notes? and if so, how did you adapt that to ereaders?)
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