Comments on: Amazon’s Kindle, Unfortunately Unscented http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:39:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Great White Snark http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-485 Great White Snark Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:20:38 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-485 <p>I'm going to crib my quote from blogger John Scalzi: "I can pay $400 for an e-book reader, and then pay $7.99 for an electronic copy of a book, or I can just pay $7.99 for the actual book, which requires no expensive intermediary equipment to enjoy, and use that extra $400 to buy 50 more books."</p> <p>Also? Duuuuuuhr.</p> I’m going to crib my quote from blogger John Scalzi: “I can pay $400 for an e-book reader, and then pay $7.99 for an electronic copy of a book, or I can just pay $7.99 for the actual book, which requires no expensive intermediary equipment to enjoy, and use that extra $400 to buy 50 more books.”

Also? Duuuuuuhr.

]]> By: Nima http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-484 Nima Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:50:58 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-484 <p>You're weird.</p> You’re weird.

]]> By: Marmar Wibbe http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-483 Marmar Wibbe Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:39:41 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-483 <p>Also, the analysis is great. But you did forget one small but important value of physical books: their availability for recycling into toilet paper. Back in the '90s (when Toeman and I lived in the same house) I reveled at the opportunity to wipe my backside with the smashed and re-constituted pulp of Newt Gingrich's book, of which a million copies were printed but nobody wanted to read. You can't rightly wipe your arse with a computer screen, now, can you?</p> Also, the analysis is great. But you did forget one small but important value of physical books: their availability for recycling into toilet paper. Back in the ’90s (when Toeman and I lived in the same house) I reveled at the opportunity to wipe my backside with the smashed and re-constituted pulp of Newt Gingrich’s book, of which a million copies were printed but nobody wanted to read. You can’t rightly wipe your arse with a computer screen, now, can you?

]]> By: Marmar Wibbe http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-482 Marmar Wibbe Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:33:33 +0000 http://equinox-of-insanity.com/2007/11/amazons-kindle-unfortunately-unscented/#comment-482 <p>Mr. Toeman was in my college fraternity back in Pittsburgh. He lived down the hall from me. We got along OK but lost touch after college. And here you have quoted his wisdom without knowing this connection. Needless to say, I was stunned.</p> Mr. Toeman was in my college fraternity back in Pittsburgh. He lived down the hall from me. We got along OK but lost touch after college. And here you have quoted his wisdom without knowing this connection. Needless to say, I was stunned.

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