{"id":273156,"date":"2009-08-14T13:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/08\/14\/the-aesthetics-of-reading\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:15:31","slug":"the-aesthetics-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/08\/14\/the-aesthetics-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aesthetics of Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Walker—author of Buying In<\/em>, one of the best marketing\/business books of the past few years—just found a listing on Etsy<\/a> for a hardcover copy of Buying In<\/em> that “has been sealed and cut by hand to fit Amazon’s Kindle 6” Wireless Reading Device.”<\/p>\n

Seriously. Here’s the full listing:<\/p>\n

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Love your Kindle but miss the feel of holding a real book?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Do you get a kick out of seeing objects being used in a way other than their intended purpose?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Then I bet you\u2019ll enjoy carrying your Kindle hidden inside a book.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This hardcover copy of \u201cBuying In\u201d by Rob Walker has been sealed and cut by hand to fit Amazon’s Kindle 6” Wireless Reading Device.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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(Please note that the Amazon Kindle seen in the picture is NOT<\/span> included.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is an official Don\u2019t Judge Me<\/a># piece. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Granted, this is kind of cool . . . And if it becomes really popular, Rob still gets his royalties . . . but there’s something perverse about having your work carved apart to cloak a Kindle. Although on the other hand, this could be the perfect solution for people who miss the tactile sense of reading a real book, and who want to show off to the world what it is they’re reading . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rob Walker—author of Buying In, one of the best marketing\/business books of the past few years—just found a listing on Etsy for a hardcover copy of Buying In that “has been sealed and cut by hand to fit Amazon’s Kindle 6” Wireless Reading Device.” Seriously. Here’s the full listing: Love your Kindle but miss the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[26876,14906,8216,19296],"class_list":["post-273156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-buying-in","tag-future-of-reading","tag-kindle","tag-rob-walker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351446,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273156\/revisions\/351446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}