July 20, 2009

Charging Extra for Poetry

To the Editor:

When old technologies are reinvented, we often note their value but lose sight of their origins. In a recent essay, "Reading Dickens Four Ways" (The Chronicle Review, June 12), Ann Kirschner compares the experiences of reading Little Dorrit using a variety of technologies, including a Penguin paperback, a Kindle, the iPhone's eReader, and an audiobook.

"If I made a graph of total reading time," Kirschner notes, "the audiobook would win." Yes,

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