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Reading in the Time of eReaders

You can change text size, you can carry a library in your bag. Yet, what it really takes to get hooked is not the gadget, it’s a good book

Nintendo 3DS

Your eyes will hurt if you play it for too long. But that’s a small price for this 3D console

Martinis, Stilettos and Our Mostly Unreal Love Stories

Chicklit in India is all bright covers and imported accessories, barring some notable exceptions

Gandhi Sans Gloss

A skillful biography that does not deserve any of the media brouhaha around its ‘sensational’ bits

All That We’ve Lost Since Harappa

Chronicling the past as well as documenting the contemporary, Banerjee playfully counts our losses

Acer Liquid Metal

A good-looking phone that performs better than its specs suggest

Fuji HS10

Here is a point-and-shoot super zoom with features of a professional camera

Five Pages That Became a Film

Tracing a Ruskin Bond story to a Vishal Bhardwaj screenplay, and discovering what got lost in the process

When Jeffrey Archer Writes His 13th Draft

That’s the right time to send it to the editor, says the bestseller man who writes in complete silence and pure isolation

Good Words, Bad Words

How the taboos of a language change, and what they say about its speakers

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