More Evidence of the Ayn Rand Moment

Katherine Mangu-Ward | October 14, 2009

Tech blog Gizmodo is offering a sneak peek of the new Barnes & Noble competitor to the Amazon's Kindle e-book reader. Guess what text is onscreen in the image?:

Comments

|10.14.09 @ 3:59PM|#

YES!

|10.14.09 @ 4:00PM|#

I don't believe it!

Designer are all a bunch of technocratic commies...

skr|10.14.09 @ 4:33PM|#

not all, they just have to stay in the closet.

|10.14.09 @ 4:02PM|#

But one marketing gnome can throw a libertarian wrench.

24AheadDotCom|10.14.09 @ 4:04PM|#

Gosh help us if any liberal blogs found out about this and began a campaign. Or something.

Well, gotta go.

WWJGD|10.14.09 @ 4:05PM|#

I...do I? I can't bring myself to do it...

Xeones|10.14.09 @ 4:05PM|#

Well, gotta go.

Good.

WWJGD|10.14.09 @ 4:07PM|#

It's almost sullied by Stephanie Meyer book in the little queue at the bottom.

|10.14.09 @ 4:07PM|#

Cool!

According to Gizmodo, the name of the device is pretty lame. Maybe they called it the Roark Reader?

John Tagliaferro|10.14.09 @ 4:12PM|#

Very cool.

Attorney|10.14.09 @ 4:15PM|#

I'll give up my Kindle when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.

John Tagliaferro|10.14.09 @ 4:16PM|#

From the article:

And the device will have some sort of access to all books scanned by the Google Books project;

Nice! But did not see of you can download regular PDFs to it.

Brett|10.14.09 @ 4:29PM|#

I just don't know how much I'd like trying to read a book on one of these. It will take some getting used to, that's for sure. It would be cool if they came with a built in dictionary for those pesky works you come across.

Attorney|10.14.09 @ 4:33PM|#

It took me less than an hour to become completely comfortable reading on a Kindle. (It does come with a built-in dictionary, with a look-up feature accessible directly from other books.)

Brett|10.14.09 @ 4:47PM|#

Cool, thanks. Not sure why I thought I had such an original idea there. I'd also like a language translator, for English books that throw in some foreign language and make you fend for yourself (yes, I'm looking at you, Cormac McCarthy).

zoltan|10.14.09 @ 9:28PM|#

Or Nabokov or Umberto Eco. I mean, was Lolita even originally written in French? If so, who decided to leave whole paragraphs in freakin' French?

|10.15.09 @ 2:07PM|#

If the word or phrase you need info about isn't in the included dictionary, you can google or wikipedia it right from the kindle.

|10.14.09 @ 4:34PM|#

I have been to the local Barnes and Noble about a dozen times in the last 6 months. Their inventory computer has been unusable every damn time. I hope this thing is more reliable.

|10.14.09 @ 4:39PM|#

Excellent. Our people are everywhere.

Jonas|10.14.09 @ 4:41PM|#

The Kindle's e-ink display definitely gives it the competitive edge over other e-readers, IMHO.

I say this as the proud owner of a Kindle, so you can take that either as Kindle-owner snobbery or an informed endorsement.

Brian E|10.14.09 @ 5:22PM|#

This has an e-ink display, *and* a color multitouch display. When just reading, the color display is off so it doesn't drain power. When you're selecting a book, typing annotations, etc. the LCD is on. It's a brilliant hybrid design.

Barnes and Noble Engineer|10.14.09 @ 5:16PM|#

This final eReader design is a compromise of my artistic and technical vision. Best to destroy it.

Brian Lockwood|10.14.09 @ 5:36PM|#

If you need someone to distract the night watchman, let me know.

|10.14.09 @ 5:49PM|#

There must be a law against that.

MattXIV|10.14.09 @ 6:31PM|#

OT, the Dow closed at over 10k today - let's all raise a glass of non-vintage domestic champaign to our new asset bubble!

@|10.14.09 @ 6:50PM|#

More Evidence of the Ayn Rand Moment

And yet, not a single Rand hate-comment?
KMW instigation-fail.

Fist of Etiquette|10.14.09 @ 7:04PM|#

This is only because the ink isn't dry on "Going Rogue" yet.

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|10.15.09 @ 4:18PM|#

Why is this not available on the Kindle? Argh. Amazon has got to make a firmware update to read ebooks.