10-29-2009, 12:43 AM | #1 |
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"Nooking" has now become a verb for reading on a Nook
The other day, the dditors at urbandictionary.com reviewed and accepted this new definition of the verb NOOKING:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nooking nooking To read a book on a sleek, light e-reader device called a Nook and marketed by Barnes & Noble. "Sorry, I can't talk to you now honey, I'm nooking the new Dan Brown book on my Nook and I just can't put it down!" Since "kindling" is already a verb used by many Kindle owners, it only makes sense that "nooking" catch on, too. Are you kindling now or nooking? BTW, the Urban Dictionary also accepted "kindling" as a verb there. Go look. |
10-29-2009, 01:18 AM | #2 |
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I just hope they don't start referring to the content of the Nook as "nookie" :-)
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10-29-2009, 01:27 AM | #3 |
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SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: The act of using "kindling" or "nooking" to refer to reading on an electronic device should not be attempted by anyone who is not a professional douchebag.
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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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10-29-2009, 02:17 AM | #6 |
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Yeah! I do the same thing with my Sony Reader! People ask what I am doing, I tell them I am "reading" such and such book. They must think I am a really "with-it" cyber guy with my own cool language developed just for the Sony Reader!
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10-29-2009, 02:24 AM | #7 |
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I didn't get it at first, but wow, great comment.... RFLOL! That's one for the books!
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10-29-2009, 02:27 AM | #8 |
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10-29-2009, 05:26 AM | #12 |
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Oh, I nearly missed it!
I was too busy sonypeearesfiveohfiveing and irexiliadveetwoing a couple of novelettes.... |
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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...) |
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10-29-2009, 08:06 AM | #14 |
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Urban dictionary has editors? I never would've guessed after seeing some of the ridiculous garbage that gets listed there.
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10-29-2009, 08:09 AM | #15 |
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I'm curious how the activity of "reading on a Nook" can have an "accepted" term, when the machine has not actually been released yet.
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