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Interesting article on why poetry is not doing well in e-book formats
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/19/BUN21EFS7H.DTL

Billy Collins was the Poet Laureate of the United States  from 2001 - 2003, and he's one of my father's colleagues at CUNY. He also writes some incredible poetry.


Date: 2010-07-20 09:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kareina.livejournal.com
I understand that e-books can read pdf files, too. Is that correct? When they do do they treat them like a pdf, with all line breaks happening where they were originally, or do they convert them fully to the e-book format? If the former the poetry problem is solved--simply make it a pdf, and if the reader needs a large font size they can slide the window back and forth across the page to see the words at the far end of a line...

On Forgetfulness (or Ave Maria)

Date: 2010-07-20 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] la-peregrina.livejournal.com
A scholar sends out
chilling verse, down to the soul,
hitting close to home.
Do I thank the messenger,
or cringe in my disquiet?

Date: 2010-07-21 05:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katerit.livejournal.com
My father really likes Billy Collins and his poetry - I do as well.

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