The pages sit open like a pair of wings, and the layout has a roomy feel. The Anthologist is a left-hand, or verso, page, matched by a right-hand, recto counterpart. A distinctly clitoral toggle switch lets you move around a page and highlight and make notes and save passages - stuff you'd use a pencil to do in a standard book - but it's fussy and Lilliputian to boot. Unfortunately, that's also why it's such a pain in the grasp to find specific stuff on Kindle. You want bigger type? Okay! Fewer words per line? No problem. I turned randomly in the book to page 10, where Baker writes "People are going to feed you all kinds of oyster crackers about iambic pentameter" - except that it wasn't page 10 on Kindle, it was at "locations 131-38," which is how Kindle has to number things because its typeface is customizable. The Anthologist sitting on my desk, and I wanted to compare the old way of reading with the new. The first thing I did was download Nicholson Baker's new novel, Having read on Kindle for 24 hours, I'll say this: If you can forget you're using one, I'm the next Miss Sweden.
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