From Jezebel, a response to a quite stupid NY Times piece:
Alas, cries the New York Times, the Kindle, that sassy new reading thing-a-ma-jig that the kids are into, is destroying the world of "literary snobbism" as we know it. "The practice of judging people by the covers of their books is old and time-honored. And the Kindle, which looks kind of like a giant white calculator, is the technology equivalent of a plain brown wrapper," writes Joanne Kaufman, "If people jettison their book collections or stop buying new volumes, it will grow increasingly hard to form snap opinions about them by wandering casually into their living rooms."
Our sympathy towards book snobs abounds. Without physical book covers available to them to prove their great worth as people of superior taste, they are now reduced to using outrageously expensive electronic gadgets to proclaim themselves people of superior bank-balances. Which isn’t as much fun as simply sporting flash jewelry.
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