{"id":24999,"date":"2011-08-16T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-very-fond-of-my-kindle-for-the-reasons-ive\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T18:36:15","slug":"im-very-fond-of-my-kindle-for-the-reasons-ive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/im-very-fond-of-my-kindle-for-the-reasons-ive\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m very fond of my Kindle. For the reasons I\u2019ve outlined above, I think it\u2019s an ingenious little gadget. But in my more hysterically Borgesian moments, I also think that there is something obscene about it, something that defiles and corrupts a reality I don\u2019t want to see defiled and corrupted. It\u2019s a tiny thing, really \u2014 smaller, in fact, than my paperback Penguin Classics edition of The Book of Sand. And yet the number of pages it contains is, if not quite \u201cliterally infinite,\u201d at least potentially infinite. No page is its first page; no page is its last. If I place it on one of my shelves, if I slip it between, say, two creased and dog-eared volumes of Borges\u2019 stories, it sits there unobtrusively, slimmer than any of the books around it. And yet it has the uncanny, shape-shifting potential to encompass all of them, to embody them all both individually and as a whole. Unsettlingly, it makes all those other books appear suddenly unnecessary, superfluous, seeming to haunt them with the imminent prospect of their own redundancy. It\u2019s an elegant coincidence that the microprocessors that facilitate its mysterious magic are made from silicone, which is extracted from the silica contained in sand. The Kindle is therefore, in an oddly literal sense, a book of sand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2011\/08\/the-e-reader-of-sand-the-kindle-and-the-inner-conflict-between-consumer-and-booklover.html\">The Millions : The E-Reader of Sand: The Kindle and the Inner Conflict Between Consumer and Booklover<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m very fond of my Kindle. For the reasons I\u2019ve outlined above, I think it\u2019s an ingenious little gadget. But in my more hysterically Borgesian moments, I also think that there is something obscene about it, something that defiles and corrupts a reality I don\u2019t want to see defiled and corrupted. It\u2019s a tiny thing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6vd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}