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Originally Posted by danbloom
LOL, but careful, ZJ: many very nice people who own these devices are using these words on their personal blogs. Do some googling and you will see. They do not mean any offense or harm, but some Kindles users LOVE their Kindles so much that they have started using the word as a verb. I told this last month to the man in SF who created the word KINDLE for AMAZON, Mr Michael Cronan, and he told me in an email that when he coined the word KINDLE for the reading device, he and his wife acutally HOPED the word would be turned into a verb, and their very first press release a year ago or so, used the word as a verb, too, before anyone else did. He told me he is pleased to see "kindling" used a verb for reading on a Kindle. The man himself!
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I realize that fandom or unawareness or lack of actually thinking about it might lead normally rational people to do silly things. But let's just think about how annoying it would be if every guy who drove a Porsché insisted on telling everyone he was Porsching around town and would be the designated-porscher for the night out that night...
It's still reading, whether it's a kindle, nook, paperback, newspaper, tattoo-on-fat-guy, or underwater-breathing-manual-super-glued-to-bottom-of-swimming-pool.
I don't feel too worried about offending people who are doing silly things. A little cynical dry humor never hurt anyone (except maybe the humorist who got beaten up for it...)