This is not The Haters Club You're Looking For discussion
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I hate anything that wants to be a book, but isn't.
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Feb 09, 2009 05:13PM
I'm lookin' at you, Kindle 2. Future of books, indeed. Wonder what'll happen when Montambo drops one of those things in the bathtub...
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The Kindle doesn't appeal to me. At all.
The other day I bought this BEAUTIFUL edition of Crime and Punishment that has the perfect creamy pages, nice margins, font fantastique and matte-finish cover. The Kindle can go fuck itself. :)
The other day I bought this BEAUTIFUL edition of Crime and Punishment that has the perfect creamy pages, nice margins, font fantastique and matte-finish cover. The Kindle can go fuck itself. :)
I'm lookin' at you, Kindle 2. Future of books, indeed. Wonder what'll happen when someone like Montambo drops one of those things in the bathtub...Better?
Oh, I wasn't bothered. It seems like it would get slippery when it got steamy.
I do like the name Kindle, though.
I do like the name Kindle, though.
Yeah, I don't begrudge anyone who wants one. I couldn't live without my ipod. Well, I could. But I don't wanna!
Not me, dammit. Just fancy, new-fangled toys that cost more than regular books and suck in the credulous in an attmpt to replace them. Me, i'd like to see us go back to clay tablets.
I think the Kindle is inconvenient. I love the feel of a book or newspaper in my hand...especially when I'm on the toilet. Who wants to hunch over and read a Kindle while they're pinching a loaf? At least I don't have to hunch over when reading The New York Times.
text books: yes.book books: no.
i would miss the bookness of my books if they were plastic and buttoned. then again....i once thought i'd never get a cell phone.
I don't want books to go away {:-/ I could care less about "newspapers" But I don't want to look at a screen, I want to feel the pages, wash the ink from my fingers, wipe the book dust from my eyes. screw e-books.
Yeah screw e-books. Except for some obnoxiously long books only out in hard back that have 900 pages and you have to lift weights just to be able to read them in bed or hire a posse to carry them around for you because they make your bag too heavy. I guess those would be OK to read on a kindle. (or a kindle 2 or 17 or how-ever long it takes for them to actually be affordable to a regular person.) I think I'm conflicted....
Except for some obnoxiously long books only out in hard back that have 900 pages... Oh, come on. Where's the fun in reading War and Peace if you're not carrying around a ten pound copy of the book?
uhhh... lovely all the hate for the new tiny Kindle. Newbie here, btw. Two things:
1. Kindle isn't a book, I agree. It is a device that allows you access books (or eBooks to be precise), LOL.
2. Yeah, it's fragile; yeah it's expensive.
However, I've had my eReader (not Kindle, though) for 3 months now, and I cannot live without it. My CyBook goes with me everywhere. Oh, yeah.... I dropped it a few times! It still hasn't died on me.
What else.... There are 400+ books on it thus far, and plenty of free space. It's extremely thin, weights nada, is much handier than a paperback and the plastic feels nice (on a toilet and elsewhere).
But then I don't take baths...
But then I don't take baths... I did not know that they have hippies in Poland.
Sneeky Tom, checked up on me, didn't you? And yeah they (we?) do have hippies and whatnot. Thanks, glad/hate to be here
MUUUAAAHAHAHAHHA! Tell me about right, good and natural when you go on vacation and you'll be bending over backwards, cause you're dragging tons of waste paper on your back. Or when you have to drag your ass all over the town, then wait in line just to get your next read. Or when you spill honey all over your precious pages (and yes whole legions of trees died for it) ...It's gonna glue together, I assure you. While I, in the meantime, am going to be licking my light, compact CyBook clean and violà! problem's solved.
I'm not vain enough to buy myself an upgraded version of my favorite toy every time a new model is released. I'm pretty good with holding on to things. My laptop is now old, battered and chokes on vista... but I don't feel a need to rush to the store and request a shiny, new jim-dandy with kick ass graphic card. As far as pixies go, I do feel bad for them. But do you seriously expect me to give up computers, cellphones, all the electronics and majority of clothing? It would be a substantial blow to my life quality... What good would it do? If we all did that, the result would be a sucker punch to the world economy. When it is the economic growth that ultimately eradicates pixies.
Besides, cybook was designed in France and is being manufactured in Taiwan. Taiwan is nowhere close to a 3rd world country, they're doing terrific!
I for one only read books made from trees that died of natural causes, and specified in their wills that they wanted their remains used for book production. I will take no part in the ongoing arborial genocide committed by big lumber(you know, like big oil).
wow Kasia. wow!I don't whether to laugh or cry but I do know that I'm looking at your age as soon as I push the post button and I'm expecting that will explain some of what you said.
I have to admit I would have expected more like 19 or 20 but I wasn't that far off.
I'm here for your entertainment :) Just don't bring up the age argument too often, not only it works both ways (please don't make me call you geriatric) but it's gonna get old pretty quickly, no pun intended.
And Bunny is clearly not a corpse, so therefore you're not old and Kasia's wrong*.
I should have taken the SAT's.
*This is based on Bunny's infallibility.
I should have taken the SAT's.
*This is based on Bunny's infallibility.
Don't forget to take your Metamucil fiber products. Water aerobics are aint no fun if you aint reg'lar.
ewww. I have a mental picture of waffty brown clouds around all the water aerobics patrons... kinda like the yellow cloud in the kiddie pool.
Do Depends function properly under water, Marie?
well Nick I'm off for the day but - thanks that last post of yours was a special way to end the day.
Anything I can do to improve your day Marie.
And Bunny is clearly not a corpse... She could be a zombie. Zombunny!
She better not be. I hate those high-functioning zombies.
Re: Kindles. I don't think I want one for several reasons, but, although they will last forever in a landfill, trees make oxygen which "could" counteract the toxicity of all things electronic, and those damned water bottles (in a perfect world.)Re: Age. OK, at 63, I AM old, but I am not incontinent, nor are most people my age. If would think before writing about befouled swimming pools, arthritis, etc. maybe you'd realize that you'll be old one day, if you're lucky. Most young people don't like to be categorized. Neither do we. I'm definitely not a PC kind of person, but sometimes a thing is just hurtful, and I wanted to point that out.
Amazing, I actually got what you meant! How a prize for me. I'll take a cookie.
Psst! Marie. Change "now" to "not."
Marie's spelling is one of the many things that make me feel boundless affection for her. And her ass.
HA! I knew you two "get it on"... "again".
psst. Sarah. thanks, but it's too much effort. I looked for about 2/1 seconds and then I decided to get the hell out of here instead.psst. Sandy. if you enjoy seeing spelling/grammar errors that I've made you should have no end of entertainment. take for instance this post that I've lazily not capitalized the beginning of sentences and yet oddly capitalized "I've". hmmm. My early books reviews will provide you the most fodder as I couldn't figure out how to use spell check in goodreads.
Have at it! Friday night Fun...here you come!
Nick, grooooooaaaaan!
I love making you groan/moan BAM!
Marie wrote: "psst. Sarah. thanks, but it's too much effort. I looked for about 2/1 seconds and then I decided to get the hell out of here instead.psst. Sandy. if you enjoy seeing spelling/grammar errors that ..."
I correct spelling and grammar errors for a living. I'm off the clock now, so have at it. Besides, you don't have to be a genie ass to figure out when a word is a typo.
you can use spellcheck in goodreads???
Well, you can turn it on on your browser and it will work in goodreads, as well as other sites. For example, the word goodreads always has a red line under it. Doesn't spellcheck know about goodreads?! It's IMPORTANT!
Nick, I knew as soon as I typed that that you were going to twist it but once again, I'm lazy and inconsistent so ugh, groan, moan, you got me...this time.
didn't even need a condom :D
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