Undercover – from reader.ly
By Paul Biba
Where you will find an article
about the top 5 books on the Kindle Store Bestsellers List.
The Kindle does for erotica what the paper bag does for a 40 of O.E.: provide a respectable cover. Kindle owners are free to download anything, regardless of what’s depicted on the cover, and read even the sexiest office romp in, well, the office, with no one the wiser. Although I must warn that if you share a Kindle account with your spouse, as I do, you may get an incriminating email receipt forwarded to you. The Internet, depending on your perspective, has been the best or worst thing to happen to porn since VHS. Given the appeal of anonymity and quantity of free content, the Kindle might do the same for soft core fiction.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Yeah, well, I was reading in public the other day and the book I was reading an an (unanticipated) mildly smutty scene. As I was reading it, a stranger approached, exclaimed, “Oh! You have one of those reading things!” and LEANED OVER MY SHOULDER TO SEE WHAT I WAS READING. I started pushing random buttons frantically and managed to get away from it, but still. You can’t always hide.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
@Mags: That’s very funny, I hadn’t thought of that. The eInk is so slow to refresh, there might need to be an emergency button that instantly changes the screen to over to something like A Tale of Two Cities.