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View Poll Results: I think the Kindle is named "Kindle" because:
Its screen is so damned dim, it's like reading by a very small fire 3 15.79%
It lit a fire under the publishing industry 5 26.32%
After the initial excitement, I am beginning to think it's only useful as kindling 4 21.05%
I don't give a damn, mine is called George 7 36.84%
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Old 05-06-2009, 11:08 AM   #16
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This is what I heard from "semi-official" sources:

Where did the name Kindle come from?

"Our vision is that the experience that this new class of device offers will “Kindle” people’s love of reading."
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Old 05-06-2009, 11:20 AM   #17
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"Kindle" (i.e., to kindle sparks of recognition/interest/intelligence/learning/etc.) is a marketing ploy employed by Bezos to confuse us into thinking that he cares that we read, in stead of realizing he wants 'us' to buy his products. I wouldn't mind so much if Amazon were a non-profit, but now it is just designed to cause cognitive dissonance in potential buyers over having to choose between DRM and ease-of-use.
oh boo-hoo. call a wambulance for peets sake! someone invents a better mousetrap and becomes a criminal?
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... someone invents a better mousetrap and becomes a criminal?
To the mice, for sure....
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Old 05-06-2009, 03:05 PM   #19
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I personally like the name Kindle, with the English lexicon quickly becoming depleted for marketing names I think this was a good choice. And I have to second the call for the above wambulance...

Whenever I hear Kindle I first think of the Indling song by Dave Lister;

"Our love I tried to kindle
Like firelight it dwindles
Now I wonder when this wind'll
Ever stop."

-MJ
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one of the many hats I wear is training adults to be Girl Scout Leaders, and my specialty is camping. we have an entire section on fire building, using coconut shreds as tinder, pretzel sticks as kindling and tootsie rolls as fuel. obviously my association with the word is rather fond.


(oh and thanks mjh!)
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one of the many hats I wear is training adults to be Girl Scout Leaders, and my specialty is camping. we have an entire section on fire building, using coconut shreds as tinder, pretzel sticks as kindling and tootsie rolls as fuel. obviously my association with the word is rather fond.
I always believed tootsie rolls looked too much like candle wax for my liking!
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(actually they kind of remind me of puppie turds shhhh!)
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(actually they kind of remind me of puppie turds shhhh!)
Is your puppy named Tootsie?

Or are you visualizing Dustin Hoffman?
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actually neither of the above
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