What's better than a book?
Possibly not the Kindle
By Daniel Trilling Published 11 August 2009 18:25Looking for something to read? Try Nicholson Baker in the New Yorker, giving Amazon's Kindle a test-drive. And when you're done with that, here's Christopher Hitchens's New Statesman review of Baker's last book, Human Smoke.
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