{"id":301,"date":"2009-04-27T00:18:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T05:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/a-childish-thing\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T00:18:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T05:18:42","slug":"a-childish-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/a-childish-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Childish Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I  couldn&#8217;t resist doing this after reading  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/26\/fashion\/26kindle.html?_r=2&#038;hpw\">this snooty <em>fashion<\/em> editorial in the <cite>New York Times<\/cite><\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But to other writers and editors, the Kindle is the ultimate bad idea whose time has come. Anne Fadiman, the author, was relieved to learn that her essay collection, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374527229?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=vincgabl-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0374527229\">Ex Libris<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=vincgabl-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0374527229\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n,\u201d was not available on Kindle. \u201cIt would really be ironic if it were,\u201d she said of the book, which evokes her abiding passion for books as objects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a little box on Amazon that reads \u2018Tell the publisher I\u2019d like to read this book on Kindle,\u2019 \u201d she said. \u201cI hope no one tells the publisher.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nGo on, make the world a more ironic and accessible place &#8212; tell them, <strong><span style=\"font-size: 200%\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/digital\/fiona\/detail\/request-kindle-edition\/ref=dtp_dp_su_0374527229?ie=UTF8&#038;a=0374527229\">I\u2019d like to read this book on Kindle<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and as to the rest of the article, it turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/trends\/kindle_ownership_an_unreliable_marker_of_literary_selfimportance_114982.asp\">kindle owners are not more literarily self-important<\/a>; and the Kindle will give us <em>more<\/em> data to judge people with, as it becomes more integrated with our online presence. Imagine, for example, being able to tell what books someone <em>actually read<\/em>, and how many times, on their facebook profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist doing this after reading this snooty fashion editorial in the New York Times, But to other writers and editors, the Kindle is the ultimate bad idea whose time has come. Anne Fadiman, the author, was relieved to learn that her essay collection, \u201cEx Libris ,\u201d was not available on Kindle. \u201cIt would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[399,398,400,194],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","tag-books","tag-classism","tag-kindle","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}