Comments on: Kindle and the decline of cultural signaling http://www.teleread.com/robert-nagle/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cat Faber http://www.teleread.com/robert-nagle/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/comment-page-1/#comment-1105871 Cat Faber Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:33:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/13/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/#comment-1105871 If you're reading a book for how you think it will make you look to other people, you're doing it wrong. And if you're trying to judge other people by what they read, you're doing it wrong too. If e-books make those things harder, good for e-books. If you’re reading a book for how you think it will make you look to other people, you’re doing it wrong.

And if you’re trying to judge other people by what they read, you’re doing it wrong too.

If e-books make those things harder, good for e-books.

]]> By: Dave Marley http://www.teleread.com/robert-nagle/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/comment-page-1/#comment-1102107 Dave Marley Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:44:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/13/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/#comment-1102107 Someone should tell Mr. Wolcott that if he want to write about electronic media, IN electronic media, he should not write endless paragraphs. (Of course, I would make the same request if I had to read his words printed in Vanity Fair.) Someone should tell Mr. Wolcott that if he want to write about electronic media, IN electronic media, he should not write endless paragraphs.

(Of course, I would make the same request if I had to read his words printed in Vanity Fair.)

]]> By: Rob Preece, Publisher http://www.teleread.com/robert-nagle/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/comment-page-1/#comment-1101768 Rob Preece, Publisher Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:15:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/13/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/#comment-1101768 Sometimes you do have to wonder whether articles like this are serious or are intended as sarcastic commentary. Maybe it's because I publish genre fiction, but I have this weird idea that people should read for pleasure, rather than to attempt to impress others on the bus. Rob Preece Publisher, BooksForABuck Sometimes you do have to wonder whether articles like this are serious or are intended as sarcastic commentary. Maybe it’s because I publish genre fiction, but I have this weird idea that people should read for pleasure, rather than to attempt to impress others on the bus.

Rob Preece
Publisher, BooksForABuck

]]> By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/robert-nagle/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/comment-page-1/#comment-1101683 Steve Jordan Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:36:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/13/kindle-and-the-decline-of-cultural-signaling/#comment-1101683 <em>Que horrible!</em> Instead of getting false impressions of people by checking out the mass-published and store-sold offal in their hands, we'll actually have to look at people themselves... look them in the contact-lens-colored eye underneath the Mabelline eyelashes... study their mass-produced clothing and store-bought hair-color... and get our false impressions that way! How will we ever, <em>ever</em> survive this cultural upheaval? Que horrible! Instead of getting false impressions of people by checking out the mass-published and store-sold offal in their hands, we’ll actually have to look at people themselves… look them in the contact-lens-colored eye underneath the Mabelline eyelashes… study their mass-produced clothing and store-bought hair-color… and get our false impressions that way! How will we ever, ever survive this cultural upheaval?

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