2010 Hipster: "Hey look at me. I've got a Kindle before anyone else".


O_o

As long as the hipsters stay out of the libraries I'm fine with this.

hey, i followed all those trends, i read, use a kindle and read physical books in bookstores.

Wow.

After 53 years i am hip? Really?

Finally I have made it.

/sob and sniffle
//posted from my nokia symbian smart phone
///android? Whats android?

Books weren't going anywhere.

itsfullofstars: As long as the hipsters stay out of the libraries I'm fine with this die.

/ftfm

How about a "Stupid" voting button for headlines.

hipsters read ironically, in that they flip pages and snark to make it seem like they know how to read.

What makes you a hipster online changes so fast that you can go from being a boring asshole to a hipster and back again several times a day.

What makes you a hipster in real life is those stupid hipster glasses.

I am more comfortable with the argument that printed materials afford a different type of reading experience and work by using design on the pages as each spread advances, that slow reading allows a different kind of thought process. It makes more sense to say that the physical book has different, not better, not worse, qualities than digital books. And if physical books want to remain a strong presence, then they have to rise to the level of art object, e.g. full color plates, well-designed pages and materials, and intricate experience.

I hate the argument that physical books are better because "I like the feeling of a book, the smell, the textures..." That kind of rationale is equivalent to me of the "I believe in God because the Bible tells me so. I feel it." line of thought.

Pft! You mindless sheep and your printing press books...they are so mass-produced. I only read vintage books, hand-transcribed by monks on recycled paper using organic ink.

There's this kid at the school bus stop who wears glasses, sweaters, skinny jeans, etc. He's always sitting with his back to the stop sign, reading. One morning a few weeks ago, I go up there. I'm pretty loaded. I ask the kid civilly, "Hey, what are you reading?" He ignores me. So, I snatched the book out of his hand. It was some Philosophy of Right or something like that. I asked him, "What are you reading this for?" And he gives me some snide answer like "cause I want to know stuff, duh." I'm usually a pretty laid back guy, but I'm not going to take a bunch of lip from an uppity eigth grader. So I tore the book in half and threw it in the road. Kid didn't do shiat. Typical hipster puss.

Kindle? Pft. I have a first edition American Life written on a single grain of basmatti rice. It's pretty rare. Most people don't read rice anymore.

The asinine pricing of Kindle books does a lot to keep the Kindle from replacing physical books.

I collect books. My house is full of them.
I occasionally bring one to work to read at lunch.
this one girl in the office wanted to check out what I was reading and I handed her the book for a while.
I glance over and catch her sniffing the book's insides.
She sees me.
truns out she's really really really turned on by the scent of an old book.
Needless to say, I let her know that I have thousands of old books at my home and you know what? Fark isn't your personal erotica site. So there.

Meh - I'm going to stick with my 'avoid having unnecessary stuff taking space in my apartment' policy, hip or not - I'm very happy with my Kindle.

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this artical is so mainsteam, i wouldn't read it

epoc_tnac: What makes you a hipster online changes so fast that you can go from being a boring asshole to a hipster and back again several times a day.

What makes you a hipster in real life is those stupid hipster glasses.

This

Hipsters are easy to spot because they're trendy. Thick, glasses, vintage sport coats, tight jeans and trimmed facial hair. We give them way to much credit.

i still like real books more than my kindle

The Wife was having issues with her 'Kobo' e-reader last night. I picked up my paperback and poked at the page I was reading and said "Hmpf. My book still seems to work."

/yes I did get a punch in the arm, why do you ask?

FTFA: "She becomes a flood as the morning wanes and tourism waxes."

I had to read that a couple times before I realized it meant more people showed up.

/Am now buying ebooks to save space. Makes getting the author's signature a bit tricky, though.

You know, I've yet to discover what a "hipster" actually is, other than a cut of pants. I see the word used so much, here and basically everywhere else, but if you asked me to define it.....I don't think I could.

pjc51: Meh - I'm going to stick with my 'avoid having unnecessary stuff taking space in my apartment' policy, hip or not - I'm very happy with my Kindle.

This. I like being able to have a bunch of books in one small item. To me, books vs. a Kindle is like a shelf of DVDs vs a hard drive of movies. It's nice being able to have everything in one place without taking up much room.

sigdiamond2000: So wait...am I or am I not a hipster for reading books?

I want to make sure I'm not offending the sensibilities of the fat, sexless loser who keeps submitting these "hipster" headlines.

Butthurt much?

The cute thing about hipsters is they appear to represent themselves as intellectuals, yet appear to accept/reject others on superficialities.

Anyway, I like physical books because I can get them for as little as FREE and I can give them to people when I'm done with them.

Mawson of the Antarctic: I hate the argument that physical books are better because "I like the feeling of a book, the smell, the textures..." That kind of rationale is equivalent to me of the "I believe in God because the Bible tells me so. I feel it." line of thought.

How so? I can see that being the case if the person is parroting someone else's reasons for reading print but the tangibility is nothing to scoff at.

Coco LaFemme: You know, I've yet to discover what a "hipster" actually is, other than a cut of pants. I see the word used so much, here and basically everywhere else, but if you asked me to define it.....I don't think I could.

Nor can most on FARK... the general concensus is "whatever I don't like".

/never owned, and never plan to own, an ebook reader
//still buys cds, vinyl

sigdiamond2000: So wait...am I or am I not a hipster for reading books?

I want to make sure I'm not offending the sensibilities of the fat, sexless loser who keeps submitting these "hipster" headlines.

Hats off to you sir.

If you buy them second-hand, physical books are cheaper than they've ever been and much cheaper than eBooks

Honestly, I usually enjoy speaking with hipsters more than I enjoy speaking with most regular people (unless I'm in the mood to talk about shopping at Walmart, watching football or being obese).

I think a lot of farkers, however, confuse "hipster" with "douchebag". Yes, sometimes they look very similar but you can easily tell them apart because the douchebags are the ones that act like douchebags.

This was an interesting book about the invention of books:

Link (new window)

The author says it took a couple hundred years for people to make the switch from scrolls to codices. A codex was revolutionary, because you didn't need both hands to hold it open, so you could write notes and stuff as you read. But traditionalists couldn't let go of the scroll. Mainly because it would roll back up and then they'd never find their place again.

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b0rscht:
NERDRAGE.

I love fark.

mortimer_ford: Mawson of the Antarctic: I hate the argument that physical books are better because "I like the feeling of a book, the smell, the textures..." That kind of rationale is equivalent to me of the "I believe in God because the Bible tells me so. I feel it." line of thought.

How so? I can see that being the case if the person is parroting someone else's reasons for reading print but the tangibility is nothing to scoff at.

I'm not dissing the tangibility, it's one of the things physical books have got going for themselves and if they want to keep on remaining viable as a form in the next few decades, manufacturers and publishers have to embrace and enhance that physicality.

I guess I painted my quote with too broad of a brush. I was getting at the simplistic, kneejerk reasons some people give about physical books being infinitely superior to any other format that contains text.

I mean, we had scrolls, and stone tablets, sides of buildings, and parchment before we hit upon the codex form of the book. The internet is actually taking us away from the codex form into another spread out format. What that is, I don't know yet.

You'll get my hardcopy books out of my cold, papercut hands!

/electronic is fine for light reading
//need hardcopy for reference work.

It's a book store not a library

hillbillypharmacist: sigdiamond2000: I want to make sure I'm not offending the sensibilities of the fat, sexless loser who keeps submitting these "hipster" headlines.

The headline is acceptable by any theological and geometrical standards, however abstruse, and suggests a rich inner life.

/obscure?

My valve can take only so much of this deranged mariner's neuroses.

kelcam: This was an interesting book about the invention of books:

Link (new window)

The author says it took a couple hundred years for people to make the switch from scrolls to codices. A codex was revolutionary, because you didn't need both hands to hold it open, so you could write notes and stuff as you read. But traditionalists couldn't let go of the scroll. Mainly because it would roll back up and then they'd never find their place again.

Makes sense. I think the codex format and its compactness was the main innovation to me. Having the two facing pages in a spread within a book separated the text into smaller, bite-sized chunks AND laid the foundation for Graphic Design as we know it. Plus the scroll seems more suited to an Oral literature based culture as it facilitates one reader and since it's an unbroken column of text, unfolds in time rather than space.

Most internet pages are "scroll" based rather than codex so I wonder what this has done with our reading? I know people talked a hell of amount of hypertext in the 90s, but whatever it is, I think we are completely alien to our parent's and parents' parents generations when it comes to understanding/reading text.

ComicBookGuy: sigdiamond2000: So wait...am I or am I not a hipster for reading books?

I want to make sure I'm not offending the sensibilities of the fat, sexless loser who keeps submitting these "hipster" headlines.

Butthurt much?

The cute thing about hipsters is they appear to represent themselves as intellectuals, yet appear to accept/reject others on superficialities.

Anyway, I like physical books because I can get them for as little as FREE and I can give them to people when I'm done with them.

What are you blathering about? Hipster is a way of dress, similar to Beatnik, and then Hipster, then Hippie. INTERNET usage of hipster is someone you don't like. Also known as someone who doesn't follow the bandwagon. But then not following the bandwagon is cool, so no one follows it and *brain shuts down*...

/I own books because I like owning things
//also because I am old enough to know what happens to electronics 5 years from now
///physical books have a more predictable shelf life and copy write life.

Mawson of the Antarctic: Most internet pages are "scroll" based rather than codex so I wonder what this has done with our reading? I know people talked a hell of amount of hypertext in the 90s, but whatever it is, I think we are completely alien to our parent's and parents' parents generations when it comes to understanding/reading text.

Personally, if a webpage is longer than about two screens I usually don't even bother reading it. But then again, at 32 years old I guess I'm doomed to be forever stuck in the dark ages of magazines and printed textbooks.

drongozone: How about a "Stupid" voting button for headlines.

Or a dumbass" voting button for comments.

I was going to make a witty comment, and feel smug, but I have to be at the library in 26 minutes.

/something about roasting your own coffee beans
// microbrews
///Don't watch TV

Paper books can go and die as far as I'm concerned. I like the ease of electronic books. I can have a whole library in my pocket and I can read whenever I have time without needing to lug around paper books. I have been able to read more since I ditched paper books.

sigdiamond2000: So wait...am I or am I not a hipster for reading books?

I want to make sure I'm not offending the sensibilities of the fat, sexless loser who keeps submitting these "hipster" headlines.

Bah, those are the people that it's the most fun to offend.