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[apiphile]

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[wolfy_writing]

It does sound like you got a particularly shitty and buggy Kindle. It definitely sounds like a pain in the ass, and more trouble than normal books.

I hate the sheer amount of snobbery that goes on around e-readers. It's a device, the point of it is to be useful, and if the newer things ends up being less useful than the older thing, there is no reason to insist people use it just because it's new. This should be a straightforward non-ideological "Use whatever tool suits you and don't give other people crap about their choices" thing, but no. Everyone has to either go off about how e-readers aren't really reading and anyone who doesn't get a thrill at the scent of old books fails life forever, or start sneering at people for being horrible Luddites who don't embrace the shiniest technology there is for such paltry reasons as "It doesn't work very well for me."

Possibly related to unrelating bad dreams and hormones, I am also filled with a swill of bad doom feelings insisting that everything I do is wrong and everyone hates me;

[apiphile]

Everyone has to either go off about how e-readers aren't really reading and anyone who doesn't get a thrill at the scent of old books fails life forever, or start sneering at people for being horrible Luddites who don't embrace the shiniest technology there is for such paltry reasons as "It doesn't work very well for me."

I'm sure marketing is to blame, playing on people's tribal instincts, like with the Mac vs PC ads where everyone tries to incorporate a bloody TOOL as part of their IDENTITY.

I don't hate you and many of the things you do don't strike me as at all wrong.

Thank you. The annual braintantrum goes in some interesting directions when deprived of self-harm.

[wolfy_writing]

I'm sure marketing is to blame, playing on people's tribal instincts, like with the Mac vs PC ads where everyone tries to incorporate a bloody TOOL as part of their IDENTITY.

I know what you mean. The tools a person uses say something about what kind of person they are, but they don't define one's identity. Even if someone's all "I'm a Mac Person" and tries to live up to the annoying hipster stereotype in every way, that isn't a case of their life being defined by their Mac so much as their life being defined by their decision to think of themselves as an extension of an object.

Sorry you have to deal with the braintantrum.

[apiphile]

so much as their life being defined by their decision to think of themselves as an extension of an object.

ASTUTE. Yes, I think as much. How can you call yourself a "Mac person", honestly?

[angelofsith]

I could say 'mine doesn't do that', but I'll actually try and be helpful with regards your kindle. It does sound like it's faulty and it'd probably be best to backup everything on it and ask Amazon to replace it. Also, which version is it? Might be worth checking for a firmware update before having it replaced. Not that helpful, sorry.

[apiphile]

Have updated the firmware! Thanks for that, we'll see if it behaves a little better now.

[morecake]

Any sewing project requires a blood sacrifice. Also, I've made a ton of clothes, including fitted jackets and mermaid tails and so on, and I can never make head nor tail of bought patterns so your sizing it up as well is most impressive.

[apiphile]

Well I cannot make my own patterns for love nor money and require instructions, so I think it's possibly just different minds - you are after all a very "I will make this from SCRATCH" person, O Ye Engineer-type.

[ruthi]

Send the Kindle the fuck back to amazon, have them send you one that works. I am afraid it needs a phone-call and you'll want to make a list of its failings.

I have read your blog-post and found it witty and funny and I like the dress.

[apiphile]

Linds has updated the inside bits and so on just to make sure it's not a bug that can be fixed that way, if it doesn't behave itself now it's going the fuck back to Amazon.

[apiphile]

I can see this being useful on long flights and when feeling indecisive, but aside from that and storing PubMed articles, you are correct. Books are nicer.