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; curiously not holding up my assaults on the wankers of Putney as evidence of this, even though that would be the most obvious example. No, it's far more esoteric. My writing makes me a wanker, or my ... desire to talk to people, or something? Very strange, brain. Very strange.
Very strange. I don't hate you and many of the things you do don't strike me as at all wrong.
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.
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.
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; curiously not holding up my assaults on the wankers of Putney as evidence of this, even though that would be the most obvious example. No, it's far more esoteric. My writing makes me a wanker, or my ... desire to talk to people, or something? Very strange, brain. Very strange.
Very strange. I don't hate you and many of the things you do don't strike me as at all wrong.
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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.
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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.
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ASTUTE. Yes, I think as much. How can you call yourself a "Mac person", honestly?
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