from Gutenberg to Gadgetry

In Multimodal Discourse, Kress and Van Leeuwen discuss McLuhan's idea that new media tends to repackage old media. Case in point: Amazon's new reader, the "Kindle." I also read an advertisement for Sony's version of a digital reader in Sky Mall magazine, available on most airlines.

I've read up a bit on the reading devices and see how these are instances of new media repackaging old media. Here are a couple of good sources about the devices:

*a Newsweek spread on it at http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983/page/1

*reviews at CNet http://reviews.cnet.com/e-book-readers/amazon-kindle/4505-3508_7-32751890.html

Here's an idea for a paper--"Remediating Reading: from Gutenberg to Gadgetry"