Commercial Alarm Systems: Kindles make reading people harder

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Kindles make reading people harder

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If you need another reason to worry about the death of printing, consider access to the soul of strangers who are lost when e-readers take over " / aa>

Aha! I finally pinpointed a specific reason for my persistent, irrational, probably soon to be disposed bias against e-readers. I had dinner last night with some people at the Edinburgh Festival, and finally, inevitably, the subject of electronic books over printed approached. The advantages and disadvantages have been duly debited to another question, and the conversation followed the usual, well-worn lines, until a party member did what I thought was a killer.

"The problem with the Kindle," he says, "is that you can not say what other people reading on public transport."

Case closed. Spy on what everyone on the bus is reading is my main source of entertainment on the way to work in the morning. Travel by train are encouraged to try to take a look at the book cover is buried in the person opposite without acknowledging what I do. One of my favorite destinations on the Internet is people reading the blog that publishes pictures of people in San Francisco, with its latest reading material, a price, on the other hand, someone with whom I can meet a blog used to visit a few years writing for a woman, somewhere in North America, which is used for the clock, not just the title, but the page bypassers are reading books, a library press, the nearest book and followed the page and transcribe what he found there.

voyeurs of the world, unite: when ebooks take over, how can we make snap judgments about our fellow travelers? Think about it.