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Survey: “Do you own an Amazon Kindle?” 2%: “I don’t know”
Steal More Than Just The Shampoo: British Hotel Offers Kindles Instead of Bibles
Rather than offering a paper based edition of the bible, a hotel in Newcastle, U.K. is providing a Kindle e-reader in each room, with the bible preloaded onto each device.
Hotels nowadays will secure anything they can to prevent theft. You can’t move the lamps, you can’t unplug the TV, and you certainly can’t take any hangars. But I’ve got to say, if there’s going to be something in a hotel room that turns me to a life of crime, it would be The Holy Kindle. Starting today, all 148 rooms of Newcastle’s Hotel Indigo will have a Kindle. If this isn’t begging someone to steal from the hotel, I really can’t tell you what is.
Nook version of “War and Peace” replaces all instances of ‘kindled’ with ‘nookd’
One of the downsides of reading an ebook can be finding weird formatting, spelling mistakes, and other things that got lost in the digital translation. However, word started going around last week about one of the more bizarre changes we’ve heard of — apparently, in the War and Peace on the Barnes and Noble Nook platform, every instance of the world “kindled” has been replaced with “nookd.”
