AmTrak, the Palm TX and Sophie
When I took AmTrak up to New York yesterday from Alexandria, VA, a wonderful short story collection accompanied me—along with several hundred other titles stored in my Palm TX. No matter that the light aboard the Silver Meteor was dim at 5:45 a.m. How grateful I was to have an LCD machine glowing with beautiful, extralegible text. E Ink has its glories, but I daresay the typical e-book reader is far more often in Silver Meteor situations than out in the bright sunlight
I was visiting my link.friends at the Institute for the Future of the Book in Brooklyn, and later this week you see screenshots of Sophie, which will allow even nontechnical people to turn out polished multimedia e-books. The Institute is housed in the beautiful, gentrified section of Williamsburg, just the place for WiFi moochers like a certain visitor from Virginia whose grandfather, coincidentally, once toiled in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Max was a master carpenter/decorator working for home-owners later on, and I’m confident he would have approved of the clean, functional aesthetics that Bob Stein and friends are building into Sophie.
Photo: Brooklyn Skyline Sunset.
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