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Today I’m just gonna use this clip from this article <\/a>that everyone should read. Follow the link after you check this out. How clueless and absurd have we become?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the experience of Philip Howard, who sat down to read a printed edition of War and Peace in 2010. Halfway through reading the brick-size tome, he purchased a 99-cent electronic edition for his Nook e-reader<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I was reading, I came across this sentence: \u201cIt was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern \u2026\u201d Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the translated) text.<\/p>

For the sentence above I discovered this genuine translation: \u201cIt was as if a light had been kindled in a carved and painted lantern \u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A search of this Nook version of the book confirmed it: Every instance of the word kindle had been replaced by nook, in perhaps an attempt to alter a previously made Kindle version of the book for Nook use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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