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Catching up with Calibre

Posted Sep 1, 2011 9:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Catching up with Calibre

No such luck with the reader, alas; even the spouse and the dog can't always be counted upon.

I'm still a real-book man (though may be forced away for technical works by space constraints and greppability). However, I can't manage this scene owing to the lack of the fire. I suppose one could get it by burning all my existing paper books, but, well, that would be sacrilege. Books are... well, books. If I burnt them I might as well be one of those cads that snaps spines or scribbles in books with yellow highlighter pen.

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Books as kindle

Posted Sep 1, 2011 10:53 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Allow me to introduce Pepe Carvalho, the Spanish fictional detective who always lights the fire on his chimney using books. He used to say that he have already learned too much and it was time to unlearn.

Also, the name of Amazon's reader (Kindle) means to set on fire, so something must be afoot. Burn your old paper books while getting them in electronic form?

Books as kindle

Posted Sep 1, 2011 20:19 UTC (Thu) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

Officially, Kindle uses the alternate meaning of kindle: "Arouse or inspire (an emotion or feeling)" (I think it is on the boot screen?) But I'm sure they're not so dense as to have missed the primary definition...

Books as kindle

Posted Sep 2, 2011 2:05 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

They're really all the same definition. The "arouse or inspire" usage is just a metaphorical use of the basic definition (to start a fire). I'm sure whoever named the kindle was aware of that.