Comments on: ‘Who needs a Kindle’—or other e-book gizmo? http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/13/who-need-a-kindle-or-other-e-book-gizmo/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: pond http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/13/who-need-a-kindle-or-other-e-book-gizmo/#comment-798935 pond Wed, 14 May 2008 14:43:53 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/13/who-need-a-kindle-or-other-e-book-gizmo/#comment-798935 I'd like to see a response/companion video with the same guy toting around ‘Shakespeare, Richard Dawkins, the Torah, and the Qur’an,’ in hardbound editions, on his back. Why not throw in a dictionary and a set of Brittanica to boot? Let's see who laughs then. I’d like to see a response/companion video with the same guy toting around ‘Shakespeare, Richard Dawkins, the Torah, and the Qur’an,’ in hardbound editions, on his back. Why not throw in a dictionary and a set of Brittanica to boot?

Let’s see who laughs then.

]]> By: Aaron J. Walker http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/13/who-need-a-kindle-or-other-e-book-gizmo/#comment-797990 Aaron J. Walker Tue, 13 May 2008 19:59:04 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/13/who-need-a-kindle-or-other-e-book-gizmo/#comment-797990 That's a funny parody. Really pokes fun at how all of the e-reading devices boast about how many books can be carried at one time. And really, how many people need to have 500 books with them at any one time? And if so, why? That’s a funny parody. Really pokes fun at how all of the e-reading devices boast about how many books can be carried at one time.

And really, how many people need to have 500 books with them at any one time? And if so, why?

]]> By: Cerebus http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/13/who-need-a-kindle-or-other-e-book-gizmo/#comment-797544 Cerebus Tue, 13 May 2008 11:06:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/13/who-need-a-kindle-or-other-e-book-gizmo/#comment-797544 Or you don't want to carry two books on the plane, but are almost finished with the first one. :) Or you don't want to struggle with your 17" laptop in coach, but have a dozen documents to review before landing. In the end, yeah, it's parody. It's not supposed to make sense. Or you don’t want to carry two books on the plane, but are almost finished with the first one. :)

Or you don’t want to struggle with your 17″ laptop in coach, but have a dozen documents to review before landing.

In the end, yeah, it’s parody. It’s not supposed to make sense.

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