David Jacobs has been telling me that I absolutely have to read Bill Simmons' The Book of Basketball; it's 700 pages long and Simmons post on ESPN.com about the bits that didn't make it into the book are what's convincing me.
That, and grafs like this:
A big theme of my book is The Secret of winning basketball, something Isiah Thomas explains to me at a topless pool in Las Vegas. (The Secret, in a nutshell: Teams only win titles when their best players forget about statistics, sublimate their own games for the greater good and put their egos on hold.)
I like this Secret, and who wouldn't want to hear stories about Isiah Thomas in Vegas? There goes my holiday break...
Does the Kindle tell you how long a book is? I know there are no page numbers, but I wonder how they represent what you're getting yourself into. Does it learn how long it takes you to read a page and give it to you in hours?
Posted by: Matt Jacobs | Dec 17, 2009 at 08:49 AM
The Kindle does tell you how long a book is -- not in pages, but in "locations." And there's a progress indicator that lets you know how far along you are... I've read a couple of really long books on the Kindle app for the iPhone, and watching that progress bar move across the screen is like watching grass grow. On the moon.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | Dec 17, 2009 at 09:29 AM