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iWant No More Kindles
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
by Will Saborio
Remember when Princeton gave us Kindles, and we were like, Frick, that’s awesome! But after a while we were like, Frick, these suck. And then we were like, Frick, told you guys. Well Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania is one-upping us and giving all of their students iPads. You know, those kind of useless
- Published in Musings, The INKternet
IN PRINT: Kindles Suck!
Sunday, 22 November 2009
by Brian No
Okay, we’re all getting pretty sick of the same old Kindle story: it sucks! But here’s one more anyway. Sorry! Over the summer, I received an unexpected e-mail from the University about my upcoming “Civil Society” seminar with Professor Stanley Katz. Would I like to receive a $489 Kindle DX e-reader at no cost —
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Kindle
I Miss the Cheap Paper Course Offerings Booklet
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
by Spencer Gaffney
Course offerings came out last week, and something felt different. Fall break at home has roughly the same effect on my brain as high-caliber Novocaine, so the course guide had my full attention as soon as the website was up. I had never gone on the website first – it was always the place I
My Kindle DX and I: An Arranged Marriage
Sunday, 04 October 2009
by Brian No
Are you one of the 50 or so Princeton students who received a $489 Kindle DX free-of-charge this semester? I am. You might have seen me around campus, catching up on my Tocqueville reading for class. I tend to hold it gingerly—it’s pretty, and I’m afraid of dropping it. I’m also kind of nervous around
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News
Week in Review: July 27 – August 2 (Law and Order Edition)
Sunday, 02 August 2009
by Will Saborio
During summer, when there are no parties to break, or drunk students to catch urinating, what exactly does PSafe do? Catch criminals, that’s what. In this week’s edition: Water guns? Public lewdness? Princeton quickly becomes the next possible locale of a CSI spin-off. Meanwhile, The New Yorker is all like, “You guys were so right
- Published in Princeton in the News, Week in Review
Week in Review: July 13 – 19
Sunday, 19 July 2009
by Will Saborio
If a tree falls in Princeton during the summer, and no students are there to hear it, yes, still, nothing ever happens in Princeton. In this week’s edition: Sotomayor yada yada yada, Jeff Peek won’t be attending reunions anytime soon, moving walkways are a moving farce, the Wall Street Journal backs us up on the
- Published in Alumni, Faculty, Goings On, Politics, Princeton in the News, Week in Review
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Amazon, Bill Tierney, Bill Tierney cries, Jeff Peek, Kindle, moving walkways, Sonia Sotomayor, Stan Katz, Stan Katz is kind of boring
Saving paper and wasting money, the Princeton way
Wednesday, 06 May 2009
by Will Saborio
TechRadar reported today on Princeton’s pilot project for cutting down on paper usage by using Kindle e-books for course readings. Looks like we were right in our predictions earlier this week, but mistaken about one thing: the hardware. The project plans to use the new Kindle DX, released by Amazon today. The awkwardly-titled “Toward Print-Less
- Published in Goings On, Musings, Princeton in the News
Free Kindles At Princeton?
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
by Angela Wu
You might not have to make your way to Labyrinth to pick up your 30 pounds of textbooks next semester. Princeton is joining the likes of Yale, Oxford and Berkeley in publishing its textbooks on Kindle, which weighs a hefty… 10.2 ounces. Meanwhile, Engadget has acquired leaks of the new Kindle, which has a larger
- Published in Goings On, Princeton in the News