lol u ppl read
― markers, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
u laugh but just wait until you can carry around all ur snacks digitally
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
i don't use my eyes the kindle wifi's the knowledge directly to my memory without ever having experienced it
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
e-markers
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
always sort of suspect that people for whom physical interaction with paper and ink is more than window dressing don't actually read a lot, because if they did being able to get everything written before 1900 for free ten seconds after they think of the title would be blowing their minds way harder
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
u laugh but just wait until you can carry around all ur snacks digitally― Mordy
― Mordy
otm
― markers, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
xp And they obviously don't read long heavy books for any length of time or on public transport.
― kinder, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
All I can say is that the aesthetics, the conceptualization, the idea, and the practice of actually reading a book on an electronic device make me want to vomit. But go ahead and discard thousands of years of human experience and effort! Enjoy your carcinogenic e-leaflets on how to illegally download music instead of being a responsible adult! Have fun piecing together the scraps of recorded civilization once the electricity gets cut off!
― Static Electricity, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
i would definitely call ilx in any format literature
― markers, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:37 PM (18 minutes ago)
Sincere or joke, funniest post I've read in a long time.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
this is my favorite new troll of 2012
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
xxp Is "All I can say" a nuance of metaphorical writing here or actually true?
― kinder, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
always sort of suspect that people for whom physical interaction with paper and ink is more than window dressing don't actually read a lot
Okay, because I do at least 80% of my reading on ~devices~ now but I still enjoy the smell and feel of a well-crafted book. One doesn't eliminate the other. btw if your point is not quite that then I apologise.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
oh yeah i love books! when i read them i compulsively smell the pages like once every five minutes. but that joy doesn't have anything to do with "literature".
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
But go ahead and discard thousands of years of human experience and effort
internet
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
he kinda reminds me of Vision from the Paglia thread
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
A book is a sacred object, a totem - an e-reader is plastic sold at a loss.
― Static Electricity, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:25 PM (34 minutes ago)
In the vast majority of cases, a book is paper sold at a loss.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
actually one of the reasons i love e-readers is i can highlight in them without fucking up something as pretty as a book.
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
(you need a touch interface for this, tho; otherwise you're just pissing yourself off.)
i'm not anti-e-reader.but i never read more than one book at a time. never really have, so i guess i don't think about bringing more than one book w/me
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
i have a box of books packed up for dropping off at my local library thanks to kindle fwiw
no doubt they'll end their lives at a bookkake party for luddite paper fetishists
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
i'm playing pozzo in my friend's backyard production of waiting for godot (sequel to his backyard production of the cherry orchard) and being his usual organized self he called about an hour before the first rehearsal and was like "sorry man do you have an actual copy of waiting for godot" and i was like no and he was like can you get one and i was like actually i can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Yg9wjctRw
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, probably so much easier to read lines off a kindle too. i had never considered that advantage.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, probably so much easier to read do lines off a kindle too. i had never considered that advantage.
― Mordy, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Fixed.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
truth
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
kindles suck but not for any of these reasons
― thomp, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Amazon's arrogant as fuck. They are also willing to take a loss for a long time to increase market share. Scorched earth business style.
― thirdalternative, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah when i evangelize for this stuff it's for e-readers in general, not for the kindle, which i have and like but which has all sorts of problems and will soon look unusably clunky. (mine already does.)
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, people who eschew content for the 'experience' of reading a book. Too often those people will whip out a Dan Brown.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
just mailed an article i wanted to read later to my kindle btw
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
i considered writing it down and bringing it with me but i hadn't a pencil or any paper
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
OR A SOUL
― kinder, Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh i used to have a soul but i traded it for a kindle
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
i am a sole trader
our soul
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
i regret trading my soul for a kindle it's true, now i have nothing to trade for a kindle touch except maybe my niece
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:36 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is p bullshit IMO
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store/zgbs/digital-text
this doesn't look much different than any list of best selling books you might see, certainly no more highbrow. i doubt there's any correlation between "fetishizing" books as objects and worse taste in lit.
seriously, it's kind of obnoxious in ilx threads about this, like books have been books for thousands of years and now like kindle's been out for a few years and suddenly yr an asshole if you like regular books.
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
and fuck it, i liked da vinci code
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
that's not what i was saying
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
yr an asshole if you like regular books.
don't think anyone's said anything like this tbf
but if you say shit like
then yes, you may in fact be an asshole
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
srsly top shelf trolling
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
tip of the cap alright, we wouldn't want it to starve
― til the power failure (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 January 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
Where is SB button on Zing Touch?
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
Guess I need to go to pencil and paper ILX for that
― TEH PNINFOX aka the veen driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 January 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
bookkake party
Your abandonment of literature in its ideal format has apparently unable to discern the nuances of metaphorical writing.
???? "ideal format"? Ideal to you, obviously, but universally?
― Je55e, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
'ideal' to me is the most practical, and when I'm spending my holiday on a banana lounge by a pool I don't want to use two hands to hold open a book so
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
ymmv
cool strawsock
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
Not a purpose-specific sock though. He's been around for ages. Though not as a troll.
― Je55e, Thursday, 12 January 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
eReader + iPhone = best travel experience in history. all my books, all my music, and a decent camera fits in 1/6 of my backpack. fuck the 20th century, in retrospect it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
well, except for all the books and music written in it
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 12 January 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link