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Books as kindle

Posted Sep 1, 2011 10:53 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Catching up with Calibre by nix
Parent article: Catching up with Calibre

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?

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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.