Episode 952
November 3, 2009 This Week In eBook Reader
Opher Banarie suggests that Leo do a This Week In eBook Reader show, with the news of the announcement of the Nook from Barnes and Noble, the price cut of the Kindle by Amazon, Sony's new models, and the story of a Kindle 2 owner who got compensation for dropping his Kindle and having it replaced by Amazon for free. See the Gizmodo report.
Leo laments the fact that he's already covered the Kindle (Episodes 472, 787), but is looking forward to reviewing the Nook on TTTT.
The Nook from Barnes and Noble
The Late Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales died at the age of 83 on 22 October 2009. Dick and Leo have often talked about him, most recently at some length in Episode 826, including his custard pie routine, White Fang, and always wondering if the Twitter page bearing his name was actually his. Dick, it turns out, has written for 2 of his shows. Dick recounts a joke (first told by Dick back in Episode 161) by Soupy Sales, about a motel he was staying at, which was so bad that even in the picture postcard prepared by the motel itself, the beds were unmade. The last time Dick met Soupy was 8 years ago at Carnegie Hall for a tap dancing special, when Soupy introduced Dick to Donald O'Connor.
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