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06-24-2010, 12:30 PM | #33 |
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My message was clearly redundant. Sorry. Last edited by kacir; 06-24-2010 at 12:38 PM. |
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06-25-2010, 01:46 AM | #35 |
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... and now this thread can die in peace...
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06-25-2010, 01:53 AM | #36 | |
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On the other side, my PRS-600's online dictionary has improved my pleasure in reading books in English. My opinion differs from yours in that I only think that it's always the same action of reading: calling it something else is, in my opinion of course, stretching it too far. |
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06-25-2010, 10:22 PM | #37 |
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Not sure if this applies, but some sites are now asking posters to follow this informal style: In an effort to encourage the same level of civil dialogue among readers that we expect of our writers – a “civilogue,” to use the term coined by Jeffrey Weiss – they are requiring commenters to use their AOL or AIM screen names to submit a comment, and they are reading all comments before publishing them. Personal attacks (on writers, other readers, or anyone at all) and comments that are not productive additions to the conversation will not be published, period, to make room for a discussion among those with ideas to kick around. This might separate the wheat from the chaff here at MobileRead, too, no?
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06-25-2010, 10:39 PM | #38 |
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06-29-2010, 02:07 AM | #39 |
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It's like a game of chess, isn't it? And darren so much wants to win! for a man who admits (here on MR) he has never read much American literature, novels, poems, plays, essays -- and doesn't know most well-known writers and thinkers in the USA -- and pans top writers like Nicholas Carr and William Powers for their balanced tech vs unplugged books -- and says things like 20 years from now nobody will ever know who Nick Carr was! -- egads! -- and admits he is not much of a real ''reader'' in the first place, and that's okay, not everyone has to be a bookish person in my book, the truth does not lie only in books and there's lots to learn and know outside of the book world for sure, and the tech world is a very good place to build a homestead, sure, why don't you just move on with the things you do like in life instead of obsessing with this sockpuppet nonsense? You seem to have taken it as a personal mission to damp down the noise of people on this board you don't like, for vulgar reasons of your own. So strange. You are. But given that you are so obsessed, I beg your leave. It boggles the mind that someone would spend so much time worrying about nothingness.
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06-29-2010, 04:04 AM | #40 |
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I find this thread entertaining. Let's keep this up.
By the way, Dan, why do you keep switching IDs? 'coolcat' is now the third different ID you've used in this thread alone. |
06-29-2010, 01:27 PM | #41 |
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I don't know who Nick Carr is NOW. Or William Powers. Are they highly specialized writers? Or have they written anything recent and popular?
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06-29-2010, 01:29 PM | #42 |
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Because as soon as we identify a new ID, we ban it. Mr. Bloom is banned from MobileRead for flagrant and persistent violation of the rules. Banned means banned; it doesn't mean "create a new ID and come back". Mr. Bloom appears not to have grasped this concept.
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...highlight=carr William Powers is another obscure luddite of the same ilk-- here's his thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...William+Powers It looks that I didn't post in that thread-- don't remember if I ever commented on him at all. A review of Carr's new book: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/13/no-...ke-you-stupid/ Last edited by ardeegee; 06-29-2010 at 03:23 PM. |
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