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How to exploit faux-literary sentiment for profit

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Portland’s Microcosm Publishing store is offering to trade unwanted, Christmas-given Kindles for their value in new or used books and magazines of the paper variety.

The silly, pseudoliterary pretense of the ad had me in stitches.
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He's Not Yet Ready To Turn The Page

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publishingDavid Mehegan spans the centuries at the Boston Globe with a great piece on the genesis of books in Christian codices, the prophesied end of books in electronic Kindle-kin, and the psychological relationship between booklessness and physical nudity. 

 

(Given an either/or choice, take my clothes and leave me the books.)