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Thursday, May 20, 2010
 
The New Republic on what's wrong with the iPad.
Apple's tastes run almost exclusively to best-sellers, and even among them there are some odd omissions like Michael Lewis's The Big Short. There are no listings, for instance, for Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Wallace Stevens, Irving Kristol, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Walter Lippmann. By contrast, the Kindle offers 49 listings for Heidegger, including Being and Time; 80 listings for Wittgenstein, including several versions of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; one book by Irving Kristol and an anthology that includes his writings; three books about Wallace Stevens; one collection of Niebuhr's writing and a work about him; and 19 books for Walter Lippmann, including six books by him.
 
Comments:
The Tractus is in Guttenberg and should therefore be available on the iPad. The problem with the others is primarily that they are translations and thus copywritten but not popular enough to be converted yet.

Of course there is an excellent Kindle app for the iPad - arguably superior in many ways to iBookstore. I think more philosophy is available that way.
 
Checking Amazon there are a ton of Heidegger books to read on the iPad via the Kindle app. Although oddly only one by Heidegger: the Heidegger-Jaspers Correspondence. Likewise a lot of other authors aren't well represented. Only one Derrida work (On Cosmopolitanism) is available as well.

Kant, Hegel, Schelling, and Nietzsche fare much better. Often being available in the original German.
 
Checking Amazon there are a ton of Heidegger books to read on the iPad via the Kindle app. Although oddly only one by Heidegger: the Heidegger-Jaspers Correspondence. Likewise a lot of other authors aren't well represented. Only one Derrida work (On Cosmopolitanism) is available as well.

Kant, Hegel, Schelling, and Nietzsche fare much better. Often being available in the original German.
 
Nothing in Greek? I'm keeping my hard copies of Aristotle.
 
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