My guess is that author William Kuhn uses Google Alerts.

A couple of hours after I posted today’s column “Moving Books” (below) which mentioned Jackie Kennedy Onassis, William Kuhn left a comment.

In December 2010, Kuhn published “Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books.” Jackie Kennedy worked on something like a hundred books as an editor for Viking and Doubleday. Yeah, she loved books.

You can read an excerpt of Kuhn’s book here.

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  1. Yes, I do use Google Alerts and it told me there was an interesting column about loving books and Jacqueline Onassis in the Emporia Gazette.

    There’s been a lot of worrying lately that the birth of electronic readers and the fact that more people are reading text online will kill off conventional books. I worry about it myself sometimes.

    I also like to think that I wouldn’t have heard of flyoverpeople.net or Cheryl Unruh without Google Alerts, a true widget of the internet age. There are ways the internet age is helping readers and lovers of books make new connections with one another.

    An interesting footnote on this phenomenon. I posted this message on Twitter once I found Cheryl Unruh’s column: “Moving Books emporiagazette.com http://t.co/tsfXZMy via @emporiagazette On why books matter more to the author than a Kindle ever could.” I immediately received a message that I was now being followed by Kindle Ltd. This is Amazon, obviously promoting the use of Kindle, who hadn’t bothered to read the anti-Kindle substance of what Cheryl Unruh or I’d written.

    It’s nice to have automatic electronic notifications of text, but you do actually have to read them before you act on them.

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