An AP article (by way of CNN) again airs Bill Gates’s views on education.

[Gates] spoke of some creative school programs–particularly charter schools run by private companies–that should be a model for innovation in the nation’s schools.

Yes, just as in the past his primary objection to American education is that it is more than a corporate training ground.

Recommended with reservations.

A Powell’s Books blog update seems to agree with my assessment of the Sony Reader, citing an Associated Press review of the device.

CNN is carrying an AP article on A. M. Homes’s This Book Will Save Your Life.

The reviews have been mixed, at best. The New York Times daily review trashed the book, calling it “dreadful,” but the Sunday review called it “a splendidly perceptive joke about the freaky helixes of cultural evolution.” She’s been panned almost as much as she’s been praised.

Homes is affected. “You would expect someone like me to be jaded or cynical about it all,” she said. “It surprises and horrifies me that I’m still so naive about it all.”

For booksellers, that kind of discrepancy often means bigger sales.

Read the rest of the article at CNN.