Yes, it does allow you to download the titles you’re currently reading for offline perusal if you so choose. Yes, it does provide a more than reasonable reading experience once e-books are open, even rendering line breaks in poetry, etc., perfectly. Yes, it does sync my Kindle library to my Chromebook just fine. The Kindle Cloud Reader, though, is a different story. That app handles EPUB files perfectly, and I see no reason why other EPUB e-reading apps shouldn’t do the same. And there’s the problem.Į-reading on the device is actually a pleasure – in Readium. I mean my Amazon Kindle library and all the titles I have stashed there – online or as MOBI file and other sideloads. Fan gets stranger, more daring, with each successive book: he is an essential poet, and one I will always return to.As astute readers will probably have noticed, I recently picked up a Lenovo 100S Chromebook and have been enjoying the crap out of it. The book's vivid portrait of a marriage, quickened by sickness and the threat of separation, presents love as a play of shadow and light. 'In The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan's moving, wise and fluid poems grapple with the forces 'converting loss to some form / of chaos'. In this impressive third collection, Kit Fan's restless, explorative, compositional impulse is evident from first to last The poems in this collection - personal, political, edgy, sometimes provocative - have a unifying voice both intriguing and wholly original.'

'The compressed narratives in The Ink Cloud Reader demonstrate both lyric intensity and a remarkable dramatic reach. This collection holds at its core the tension of what to say and how to say it, gloriously in celebration of ambivalence, and questioning.' 'Kit Fan's poems are a kind of lyric vortex: imagistic fictions that wrap themselves around a hard, lyrical, personal centre, something like the complexity of a seed.

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