The problem with getting a Kindle is that, obviously
new visitors to one's home can't immediately see how incredibly well-read one is.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 11:37, 12 replies)

I have my own solution for this
I have typed up a big list of all the books I have ever bought, alongside snippets of gushing reviews from the Guardian and Telegraph, and pinned it to my living room wall. I insist that any visitors read the list every time they come round, so they can tell how clever I am in lieu of bookshelves.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 11:43, closed)

That's very sensible.
I trust it's colour-coded by obscurity and witty use of polysyllables?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 11:55, closed)

Oh, I don't know
Everyone I know that has a Kindle has spent the first hour of any conversation at their home showing me their rivetingly exciting new hardware. Exactly as if I'd never seen one or played with one in Dixons (yeah, I know they hardly exist any more) before.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:07, closed)

Hmm. You have a point.
I suppose the purpose of a Kindle, like that of an iBook for creatives from Hoxton, is to show to the WHOLE WORLD how intelligent and well-read one is.

Kindle-owners are going to shit themselves when Heat magazine starts to be published for them.

I understand a version that hosts pictures is in production. They'll include a keyboard with a future version soon, and a web connection - mark my words.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:11, closed)

You've never seen a Kindle before, have you?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:42, closed)

Not for a while, no.
Is the picture thing standard now, then? I glanced at them briefly for ten minutes when they came out, but they were too dull and grey to keep my attention for very long.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:45, closed)

Colour ones are coming out. They are still grey at the moment though. They all show pictures though.
But i was thinking more of the web connection that they all have now.

I quite like mine, really, it means I'll be able to read Gary Neville's autobiography without having to be seen to do so.


I think you are right that it's only a matter of time before you can get Heat on one too.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:47, closed)

I can generally contain my irritation at their ignorance of my superiority for the ten minutes it takes to drag them from the front door to the slaughter shed.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:36, closed)

You make an excellent point...

And what about the scholars / scientists / general experts of the future?

Where are the TV documentary people going to film them to accentuate the point that the person being interviewed is really clever? In front of a kindle? Fat chance!
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:44, closed)

Not to mention lawyers.
How the hell will we be able to trust anyone?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:49, closed)

on the same theme
when we recycle everything there will be fuck all left for future Tony Robinson and his beardy chums to archaologise. Thank god for the flytippers
(unclestinky, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 5:17, closed)

But when you pull your kindle out to read, your visitors will realize what a wanker you are.
(Maclir, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 14:07, closed)