Isn’t it about time that somebody made an e-reader that opens and closes like an actual book?

I could never get behind a Kindle, but I could (probably) get behind this.

Malcolm Gladwell‘s got a new book coming out, entitled What the Dog Saw. It’s actually not a new book, but rather a compendium of writing he’s done for The New Yorker.

Yesterday, Jason Kottke posted an excellent roundup of all the pieces that are to be included, complete with links to the original articles.

Commentary Magazine’s Algis Vliunas makes a strong effort to discredit the famous author’s lofty-ish status.

Your daily dose of required reading. By Oscar Wilde.

Michael Chabon, writing for the New York Review of Books, describes the perils of modern childhood.

Specifically, about how it’s been impoverished and all but banished indoors by pervasive technology and overcautious parenting.

John August recently posted a link to Popcorn Fiction, a screenwriters-writing-fiction project that’s apparently been in the works for a long time.

The first story, “The Flying Kreisslers” by Scott Frank, was posted a week ago and it’s pretty good.

The New Yorker’s Nicholson Baker writes about the intangibles that inevitably matter when you go all in with a gadget like the Kindle.

Because the vast, lit-killing implications of the thing have been discussed to death already, Baker wisely sticks to the strange experience of trying to find a place for it in his life.

An oldie but a goodie.

Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.