Amazon Kindle (ebook thingy)

But go ahead and discard thousands of years of human experience and effort

internet

this is my favorite new troll of 2012

he kinda reminds me of Vision from the Paglia thread

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.

actually one of the reasons i love e-readers is i can highlight in them without fucking up something as pretty as a book.

(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

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

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

oh man, probably so much easier to read lines off a kindle too. i had never considered that advantage.

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.

truth

kindles suck but not for any of these reasons

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.

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.)

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".

Yeah, people who eschew content for the 'experience' of reading a book. Too often those people will whip out a Dan Brown.

just mailed an article i wanted to read later to my kindle btw

i considered writing it down and bringing it with me but i hadn't a pencil or any paper

OR A SOUL

oh i used to have a soul but i traded it for a kindle

i am a sole trader

our soul

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

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".

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), 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.

and fuck it, i liked da vinci code

that's not what i was saying

yr an asshole if you like regular books.

don't think anyone's said anything like this tbf

but if you say shit like

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!

then yes, you may in fact be an asshole

srsly top shelf trolling

tip of the cap alright, we wouldn't want it to starve

Where is SB button on Zing Touch?

Guess I need to go to pencil and paper ILX for that

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?

'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

ymmv

cool strawsock

Not a purpose-specific sock though. He's been around for ages. Though not as a troll.

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

well, except for all the books and music written in it

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), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 8:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

New board discription

New borad description

"in retrospect"

people said it for me but yeah for god's sake there is nothing wrong with liking books, everyone likes books, books are great, my room is like 80% books; it's just when you start acting like writing's only good if you kill some trees that you seem like you're not very interested in writing

^^

Got so many books, so many unread books, that pretty much the only books I can buy these days are eBooks.

cool strawsock

― buzza, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:47 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I do think it's kinda interesting that this sock is projecting the emotional experience of reading into the PAGES OF THE BOOK ITSELF though, as though the real meaning of your wedding vows was in the precious thread of the bridal gown.

people said it for me but yeah for god's sake there is nothing wrong with liking books, everyone likes books, books are great, my room is like 80% books; it's just when you start acting like writing's only good if you kill some trees that you seem like you're not very interested in writing

― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:06 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTM. Hoos too.

Why is it that invariably in these disagreements that NO ONE* who is pro-e-reader is anti-book, but the paper lovers get all het up against e-books.

*Except Jeff, but he is a known contrarian and I have seen his bookshelves.

preferred the sandbox version of this thread tbh

if you kill some trees

i like my android and nook and all that but we need to stop this rhetoric, with stuff like the working conditions at foxcomm and the copper mining industry, etc, i'd wager the electronics industry is far worse for the planet than the paper industry in 2012

We've been reducing our books for years. Basically what we have left is going to be it give or take a book here and there. I'd get rid of those if I could.