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So, nu, kindele, have you been 'kindling' lately? ... by Danny Bloom

Since Jews are sometimes referred to as "people of the book" [ עם הספר "Am HaSefer"] -- meaning, people of the Torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud and maybe even Portnoy's Complaint -- it makes sense that Jews like reading books, writing books, buying books and "kindling" books. Kindling books? Did I just write "kindling" books? Yes, and, for those of you adults who speak Yiddish, it's not only for the kindele. READ MORE

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So, nu, kindele, have you been 'kindling' lately?


By Dan Bloom

CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan -- Since Jews are sometimes referred to as "people of the book" [ עם הספר "Am HaSefer"] -- meaning, people of the Torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud and maybe even Portnoy's Complaint -- it makes sense that Jews like reading books, writing books, buying books and "kindling" books. Kindling books? Did I just write "kindling" books? Yes, and, for those of you adults who speak Yiddish, it's not only for the kindele.

There's a new word out there in the blogosphere, online and onblogs and websites in most of the English-speaking world, and that newword is a verb -- to kindle, and the ING form kindling -- that has taken on the meaning of "reading on a Kindle e-reader device from Amazon.com. "Kindling" in this context isn't intended to start a fire--unless it's a mental one. "Kindling" means reading books or other subscription materials on a portable device produced by Amazon that connects to the Internet by wireless.

Don't believe me? Google it. That's another corporate name that was turned into a popular verb. There are others, too: to xerox something,
and to facebook someone. Language is a never-ending story. And for the people of the book, language is a multilingual affair, and while "to
kindle" has not yet made it into Yiddish or Hebrew, stay tuned. Words have wings, and Emily Dickinson might have said: "Language is that
thing with feathers."

The Urban Dictionary in California has been studying "kindle" as a verb, as a takeoff of the corporate name for Amazon's reading device,and the word -- as a verb -- is catching on, from blog posts on the New York Times website to online forums at Treehugger.com and
Kunstlercast.com. The way the new verb form was submitted the editors at Urban Dictionary, which is run by a 20-something man who works at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California was like this, according to sources deep within the hidden confines of the evolving blogoteria:

"Kindle: To read a book or a newspaper on a Kindle e-reading device."

Usage examples:

"I'm kindling now, I will call you back in ten minutes." "I'm kindling the newspaper now, can't chat, will return call in one hour." "Do you enjoy kindling with your Kindle?" "Hey, I've been kindled. My latest book was packaged by Kindle as a Kindle book and you can read it on Kindle now. It feels kind of good to be kindled."

"My book was out of print for a long time, but a new publisher reprinted it and put it on the Kindle book list and you could say my
book has been rekindled. I love it!"

Judy Goldberg in Delray Beach, Florida, tells me: "I've owned my Kindle for almost 6 months and love it. When I mention I'm reading a particular book, I refer to it as 'I'm Kindling such and such a book', so it's already a verb to me. It's hard to imagine reading a regular book now."

Liz Hill told me: "I don't 'kindle', but I know we certainly all 'google'. And that verb is in the dictionary. I often 'skype' or tell people to skype me instead of calling me. So there's another example. Maybe "kindle" will catch on as a verb, too. Who knows? Who knew?"

And Whitney Leader-Picone told this reporter: "I thought the point of the Kindle was the paper screen technology which made reading a book on a digital device not like a digital device at all. Computer screens start to hurt my eyes over the course of the day, which is why I have been so reluctant to consider ebooks in the past. The Kindle, I have heard, is gentle on the eyes. So wouldn't these differences
differentiate "kindling" from reading online?"

And she added: "I don't really mind "to kindle" since the Kindle is so unique, but I am still skeptical about whether we need a new word for
reading online. Also, shouldn't we let these new terms grow organically as they have in the past and as "to kindle" and "facebooking" have already?"


Not everyone agrees that kindle will make a good verb.

"I think this is the first time I've encountered 'kindle' as a verb," one blogger on the Internet said last November in a comment thread,
almost six months ago. "Clever, but it sort of makes my skin crawl."

So do you kindle? Are you kindling now as we speak? Do you own a Kindle? Will you use kindle as a verb, or does it sort of make your
skin crawl, too?

Stay tuned. As one top computer industry reporter at the New York Times told me in a recent email about this new use of the word kindle
as a verb to mean "reading a book on a Kindle": "Hmm."

Words are those things with wings. See Jane kindle. Watch Dick kindle.

Bloom is a freelance writer and keeps in touch with the Jewish world by Internet. He may be contacted at danbloom@gmail.com

So, nu, kindele, have you been 'kindling' lately?

THE JEWISH CYBERSURFER



So, nu, kindele, have you been 'kindling' lately?


By Danny Bloom

Since Jews are sometimes referred to as "people of the book" [ עם הספר "Am HaSefer"] -- meaning, people of the Torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud and maybe even Portnoy's Complaint -- it makes sense that Jews like reading books, writing books, buying books and "kindling" books. Kindling books? Did I just write "kindling" books? Yes, and, for those of you adults who speak Yiddish, it's not only for the kindele.

There's a new word out there in the blogosphere, online and onblogs and websites in most of the English-speaking world, and that newword is a verb -- to kindle, and the ING form kindling -- that has taken on the meaning of "reading on a Kindle e-reader device from Amazon.com. "Kindling" in this context isn't intended to start a fire--unless it's a mental one. "Kindling" means reading books or other subscription materials on a portable device produced by Amazon that connects to the Internet by wireless.

Don't believe me? Google it. That's another corporate name that was turned into a popular verb. There are others, too: to xerox something,
and to facebook someone. Language is a never-ending story. And for the people of the book, language is a multilingual affair, and while "to
kindle" has not yet made it into Yiddish or Hebrew, stay tuned. Words have wings, and Emily Dickinson might have said: "Language is that
thing with feathers."

The Urban Dictionary in California has been studying "kindle" as a verb, as a takeoff of the corporate name for Amazon's reading device,and the word -- as a verb -- is catching on, from blog posts on the New York Times website to online forums at Treehugger.com and
Kunstlercast.com. The way the new verb form was submitted the editors at Urban Dictionary, which is run by a 20-something man who works at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California was like this, according to sources deep within the hidden confines of the evolving blogoteria:

"Kindle: To read a book or a newspaper on a Kindle e-reading device."

Usage examples:

"I'm kindling now, I will call you back in ten minutes." "I'm kindling the newspaper now, can't chat, will return call in one hour." "Do you enjoy kindling with your Kindle?" "Hey, I've been kindled. My latest book was packaged by Kindle as a Kindle book and you can read it on Kindle now. It feels kind of good to be kindled."

"My book was out of print for a long time, but a new publisher reprinted it and put it on the Kindle book list and you could say my
book has been rekindled. I love it!"

Judy Goldberg in Delray Beach, Florida, tells me: "I've owned my Kindle for almost 6 months and love it. When I mention I'm reading a particular book, I refer to it as 'I'm Kindling such and such a book', so it's already a verb to me. It's hard to imagine reading a regular book now."

Liz Hill told me: "I don't 'kindle', but I know we certainly all 'google'. And that verb is in the dictionary. I often 'skype' or tell people to skype me instead of calling me. So there's another example. Maybe "kindle" will catch on as a verb, too. Who knows? Who knew?"

And Whitney Leader-Picone told this reporter: "I thought the point of the Kindle was the paper screen technology which made reading a book on a digital device not like a digital device at all. Computer screens start to hurt my eyes over the course of the day, which is why I have been so reluctant to consider ebooks in the past. The Kindle, I have heard, is gentle on the eyes. So wouldn't these differences
differentiate "kindling" from reading online?"

And she added: "I don't really mind "to kindle" since the Kindle is so unique, but I am still skeptical about whether we need a new word for
reading online. Also, shouldn't we let these new terms grow organically as they have in the past and as "to kindle" and "facebooking" have already?"


Not everyone agrees that kindle will make a good verb.

"I think this is the first time I've encountered 'kindle' as a verb," one blogger on the Internet said last November in a comment thread,
almost six months ago. "Clever, but it sort of makes my skin crawl."

So do you kindle? Are you kindling now as we speak? Do you own a Kindle? Will you use kindle as a verb, or does it sort of make your
skin crawl, too?

Stay tuned. As one top computer industry reporter at the New York Times told me in a recent email about this new use of the word kindle
as a verb to mean "reading a book on a Kindle": "Hmm."

Words are those things with wings. See Jane kindle. Watch Dick kindle.

Bloom is a freelance writer and keeps in touch with the Jewish world by Internet. He may be contacted at danbloom@gmail.com

Wikipedia accepts KINDLE as a verb and links to UrbanDictionary definition

Original Kindle, from WIKIPEDIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#External_links

Some Kindle users are now using the word "kindle" as a verb as in "Are you kindling?" or "I am kindling now and will call you back in one hour" or "I love to kindle on my Kindle now." The editors at UrbanDictionary have accepted the word as a verb now, since it is in common usage on the blogosphere. The defintion reads: "To read a book or a newspaper on a Kindle e-reading device."

The Kindle

Upon the initial launch of the Kindle, Amazon's Kindle Store had more than 88,000 digital titles available for download, with the number of titles steadily increasing.[6][7] Amazon's first offering of Kindle sold out in five and a half hours[8] and the device remained out of stock until late April 2008.[9]

The Kindle device retailed for $399; Amazon subsequently lowered the price to $359. Amazon does not sell the Kindle outside the United States as Whispernet only works in the U.S.[10] Plans for a launch in the UK and other European countries are being delayed by problems with signing up suitable cellular operators.[11]

The internal memory of the Amazon Kindle can hold approximately 200 non-illustrated titles.[10]

Reviews of Kindle have been generally favorable, although a reviewer from CNET expressed concern with the presentation of the device despite its ergonomic appeal.[12]

Some Kindle users are now using the word "kindle" as a verb as in "Are you kindling?" or "I am kindling now and will call you back in one hour" or "I love to kindle on my Kindle now." The editors at UrbanDictionary have accepted the word as a verb now, since it is in common usage on the blogosphere. The defintion reads: "To read a book or a newspaper on a Kindle e-reading device."

TO KINDLE. as a verb, accepted by Urbandictionary!

Urban Dictionary - ''to kindle'' has been accepted and published


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kindle

To read a book or a newspaper on a Kindle e-reading device

"I'm kindling now, call you back in ten minutes."

"I'm kindling the newspaper now, can't chat, will return call in one hour."

"Do you enjoy kindling with your Kindle?" "Yes, I do enjoy kindling."

"Hey, I've been kindled. My lates t book was packaged by Kindle as a Kindle book. It feels kind of good to be kindled."

Do you kindle?

Do you kindle?

by R.U. Kindling



Since Westerners are sometimes referred to as "people of the book" [ עם הספר "Am HaSefer"] -- meaning, people of the Torah and the Mishnah and the Talmud and the Five Books of Moses and the New Testament and "The Audacity of Hope" -- it makes sense that we Western people like reading books, writing books, buying books and even "kindling" books. Kindling books? Did I just write "kindling" books?

Yes, there's a new word out there in the blogosphere, online and on blogs and websites in most of the English-speaking world, and that new word is a verb -- to kindle, and the ING form kindling -- that has taken on the meaning of "reading on a Kindle e-reader device from Amazon.com.

Don't believe me? Google it. That's another corporate name that was turned into a popular verb. There are others, too: to xerox something, and to facebook someone. Language is a never-ending story. And for the people of the book, language is a multilingual affair, and while "to kindle" has not yet made it into Yiddish or Hebrew, stay tuned. Words have wings, and Emily Dickinson might have said: "Language is that thing with feathers."

The Urban Dictionary in California has been studying "kindle" as a verb, as a takeoff of the corporate name for Amazon's reading device, and the word -- as a verb -- is catching on, from blog posts on the New York Times website to online forums at Treehugger.com and Kunstlercast.com. The way the new verb form was submitted the editors at Urban Dictionary, which is run by a 20-something man who works at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California was like this, according to sources deep within the hidden confines of the evolving blogoteria:

"Kindle: To read a book or a newspaper on a Kindle e-reading device."

Usage examples:

"I'm kindling now, I will call you back in ten minutes."

"I'm kindling the newspaper now, can't chat, will return call in one hour."

"Do you enjoy kindling with your Kindle?"

"Hey, I've been kindled. My latest book was packaged by Kindle as a Kindle book and you can read it on Kindle now. It feels kind of good to be kindled."

"My book was out of print for a long time, but a new publisher reprinted it and put it on the Kindle book list and you could say my book has been rekindled. I love it!"

Kindle as a verb is catching on. Judy Goldberg in Delray Beach, Florida, tells me: "I've owned my Kindle for almost 6 months and love it. When I mention I'm reading a particular book, I refer to it as 'I'm Kindling such and such a book', so it's already a verb to me. It's hard to imagine reading a regular book now."

Liz Hill told me: "I don't 'kindle', but I know we certainly all 'google'. And that verb is
in the dictionary. I often 'skype' or tell people to skype me instead of calling me. So
there's another example. Maybe "kindle" will catch on as a verb, too. Who knows? Who knew?"

And Whitney Leader-Picone told this reporter: "I thought the point of the Kindle was the paper screen technology which made reading a book on a digital device not like a digital device at all. Computer screens start to hurt my eyes over the course of the day, which is why I have been so reluctant to consider ebooks in the past. The Kindle, I have heard, is gentle on the eyes. So wouldn't these differences differentiate "kindling" from reading online?"

And she added: "I don't really mind "to kindle" since the Kindle is so unique, but I am still skeptical about whether we need a new word for reading online. Also, shouldn't we let these new terms grow organically as they have in the past and as "to kindle" and "facebooking" have already?"


Not everyone agrees that kindle will make a good verb.

"I think this is the first time I've encountered 'kindle' as a verb," one blogger on the Internet said last November in a comment thread, almost six months ago. "Clever, but it sort of makes my skin crawl."

So do you kindle? Are you kindling now as we speak? Do you own a Kindle? Will you use kindle as a verb, or does it sort of make your skin crawl, too?

Stay tuned. As one top computer industry reporter at the New York Times told me in a recent email about this new use of the word kindle as a verb to mean "reading a book on a Kindle": "Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm."

Words are those things with wings. See Jane kindle. Watch Dick kindle.

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kindle
To read a book or a newspaper on a Kindle e-reading device
"I'm kindling now, call you back in ten minutes."

"I'm kindling the newspaper now, can't chat, will return call in one hour."

"Do you enjoy kindling with your Kindle?" "Yes, I do enjoy kindling."

"Hey, I've been kindled. My lates t book was packaged by Kindle as a Kindle book. It feels kind of good to be kindled."

"My book was out of print for a long time, but a new publisher reprinted it and put it on the Kindle menu and you could say my book has been rekindled. I love it!"




by Danny Bloom on Mar 4, 2009
tags: reading, screening, screens, kindle, computers

Kindle This!

rich ("I Kindle") stim

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rich (I Kindle) stim Says:

April 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Hi
Kindle what? I’ve read this entry twice and although I’m sympathetic to your Sony problems — problems I don’t imagine you would have with a PC but let’s not go there (since I’m considering getting a Mac) — I don’t see any “Kindle” reference. Since you’re using Kindle as a verb, I’m going to assume you’re speaking to readers who have a Kindle and who read this entry on a Kindle. So were you throwing out a challenge to us/me to see if we COULD read it. Interested in your thoughts on this, as many are.

Do you kindle? Are you kindling now? Who coined the name Kindle for that Amazon.com device? Jeff Betros or who? And how did he come up with the word?

Do you kindle? Are you kindling now? Who coined the name Kindle for that Amazon.com device? Jeff Betros or who? And how did he come up with the word?

SEE BELOW

Are You Kindling? "To kindle" is now a verb!

Are You Kindling? "To kindle" is now a verb!

Examples:

"I'm kindling now, call you back in ten minutes."

"I'm kindling the newspaper now, can't chat, will return call in one hour."

"Do you enjoy kindling with your Kindle?" "Yes, I do enjoy kindling. It's easy on my eyes and the text is very easy to read. Almost like print. Not quite, but getting closer bit by bit. I love my Kindle, and all I do now is kindle, kindle, kindle."

"Hey, I've been kindled. My lates book was packaged by Kindle as a Kindle book. It feels kind of good to be kindled."

"My book was out of print for a long time, but a new publisher reprinted it and put it on the Kindle menu and you could say my book has been rekindled. I love it!"

When I told a top tech reporter at the NY Times about the discussion
here on my blog and elsewhere -- about KINDLE as a verb -- he wrote back in Internet time:

Dear Danny

"wow... THAT didn't take long! :) "