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Kindle Non-Readers
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Reading the Kindle’s
(Non-)Readers
Real, ideal or implied…? The Reader
in Stylistics
Simon RowberryUniversity of Winchester
@sprowberry #[email protected]
Platform Studies
RECEPTION/OPERATION
INTERFACE
FORM/FUNCTION
CODE
PLATFORMCU
LTU
RE A
ND
CO
NTEX
T
DEDICATED DEVICE
MOBILE DEVICE
PERSONAL COMPUTER
DEDICATED SOFTWARE
WEB APPLICATION
PDFMOBI
POCKETAZW TXT KF8
FORMAT
SOFTWARE
HARDWARE
HARDWARE
Readers Who Read
• “Reread Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book On by George R.R. Martin and gave it 5 stars [link]
• “…alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition…”– “nice use of freetime”
Methodological Problems
• Users can be as young as 8 – ethical issues
• Amazon make it very difficult to extract data
• What’s available changes with each visit
• The following is a sample• Anonymised readers
“Haha… and yeah fb isnt rlly that popular anymore”
“Hi I'm just using my dad acount”
“I HAVE MY KINDLE BACK”
“I know that [user] broke his kindle”
“Is... is anyone on?”
“Oh yeah, been around for almost 2 years now, nobody really cares I’m here, so yeah”“How long has it been since ive been on here? Like, 6 months or something?”“i gtg finish once upon a time.”“I might be on tonite c ya till then@everyone”“Nobody's ever here. And thats the way it should stay. Get. A. Life.”
[response] “by the end of summer yall will be so bored and this place will ebe an insane asylum”
“Im 13 and im nit really supposed to be watching youtybe either, but i am, cuz my web's nit blocked.”“Are u a girl @rika”“Jake u do know tht I'm. 17 right @jake”“OH SHAUNA I REMEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN WE WERE ON THE EDGE OF OUR SEATS LIKE "AHO THE HELL IS A?!?!!!!?!?!!!!!!”” [watching TV show]
“The streets find their own use for things.”
William Gibson, “Burning Chrome”
Reading the Kindle’s
(Non-)Readers
Real, ideal or implied…? The Reader
in Stylistics
Simon RowberryUniversity of Winchester