20 most worthless pieces of junk: #10 — books in a Kindle world:
“The Kindle and its successors promise a reasonably cheap, easy-to-search, convenient way for me to indulge my favorite pastime. While I’m sure that I will always keep a few hundred books around — gotta love those sweet old first editions — I can easily imagine a future in which most of my books are on an easy-to-read, easy-to-access tablet!”
he forgot #10a, The Kindle
yeah, so the real “most worthless piece[s] of junk in a Kindle world” are going to be the first, second, third, fourth, ect., generations of Kindle. when monochrome-screen Kindles and no-video Kindles, and strawberry-scented Kindles, Kindle without voice recongnition, and limited edition Madonna Kindles, pile up in landfills in China, I think those would be the most worthless pieces of crap.
and Kindle reduces his carbon footprint? Isn’t burning coal the most common way to generate electricity? burning? coal? Unless Amazon uses hydroelectric or wind power to store and distribute Kindle books, and solar power to manufacture them, I don’t know what he’s talking about. So are all the components of a Kindle biodegradable?
“Easy” only if you’re rich
“Easy” only if you’re rich enough to afford and maintain a Kindle, of course–but I’m sure the author also thinks poor people are pieces of junk, too, so he doubtless didn’t consider them.
Is Kindle World anything
Is Kindle World anything like Wally World?
I’ll take a visit to Duff Gardens instead. Some excellent comments on this piece though ~ “The premise of the piece is that BOOKS are outdated. Perhaps the question is itself proof that we already live in a post-literate society.”
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Sure! If you don’t mind
Sure! If you don’t mind major screw-ups with legal copyright when the companies owning the distribution and actual book fight.
Oh yeah, and when I can taken it to the very sandy bits of the Pacific and not have the fine grade sand damage the bits should I drop it then maybe it will be “useless.”
EDIT: Forgot the “When it’s so common it won’t be stolen by some idiot at work if I leave it in an operations tent all day somewhere like the county fair or a casino break-room so I can read on my 10 minute break.”
And, “When I can loan it out the text to someone that needs it more then I do without hassle.”