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E-Reading

Harold Augenbraum’s Reading Ahead blog is always good, but in the wake of Amazon’s Kindle 2.0 announcement, I think his post on flat screen reading is really interesting: One difference between the screen and the printed book is that the former has no depth while the latter has the illusion of depth. When you ...

Harold Augenbraum on the Future of Literary Culture

Harold Augenbraum—Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, whose blog Reading Ahead is one of the most thoughtful, intelligent literary blogs out there—recently gave a very interesting speech at Concordia College about The Future of Literary Culture. Basically, Augenbraum is of the “digital ...

Cool New Blog

The National Book Foundation just launched a blog—“Reading Ahead”:http://readingahead.blogspot.com/— written by Harold Augenbraum. As can be expected, the posts are very thoughtful, literary, and well-written, and the mission is quite admirable: The blog’s purpose is to gather information and ...