The New York Times states that, on Christmas Day, "hundreds of thousands of consumers are expected to unwrap new e-readers that they received as gifts, and quickly begin downloading books to read." No surprise there, really, since Christmas Day 2009 doubled as the Bataan Death March of the popular printing press -- the first time that Amazon sold more digital books for its Kindle reader than it did physical ones. But, apparently, new e-reader owners will be so confounded by their alien devices that they won't even know how or what to read. "Should I download some Proust? Rhonda Byrne? This Martian contraption has destroyed my faculty of understanding!"Thankfully, there's an e-book guide to e-books, for people who can't figure out e-books. 'The E-Book Insider,' being made available for free by Random House on December 25th, will offer reviews and recommendations for people who have forgotten how to look at the New York Review of Books and other such quaintly antiquarian relics of the Pre-Kindle Period. The Times helpfully notes that "many of the [e-book] suggestions are books from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, the division of Random House that is heading the promotion." So it's a thoughtfully crafted list, to be sure.
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