‘Who needs a Kindle’—or other e-book gizmo?
Luddites will love this hilarious Kindle-related video parody from the Cracked site, where the guy insists he is must carry Shakespeare, Richard Dawkins, the Torah, the Qur’an, you name it, to read at all times.
While the named target is the Kindle, the parody really targets all e-book gizmos and their users. This Luddeo gets a special dispensation from me because it’s such a hoot.
A reply—not as witty but oh so true
Responding in the YouTube comment area, an e-book fan says the video is funny “unless you’re a student who has to carry eight books around each day, or you have a problem with the daily tons of paper waste from newspapers, or you’re someone who doesn’t want to travel 10 miles to a bookstore to get the texts they need, or you’re a publisher interested in lowering costs of production and distribution. Then I guess it just makes sense.”
May 13th, 2008 at 6:06 am
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.
May 13th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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?
May 14th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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.