This is a story as one can appreciate the Internet, and it is no wonder she appeared on Reddit , a platform for sharing images and texts, specializing in virality. A man crossing regularly in Las Vegas, noticed a homeless person on the street and noted that the man in question was still reading the same book. Neither one nor two, he offers his Kindle to enjoy the Amazon library …
The SDF Paul and his new Kindle. Image posted on Reddit by a “mjuad”
“ I just asked him if he liked to read ,” says the mysterious donor to Huffington Post, “ He said yes, but he was forced read the same book over and over, and for a while. “The man, with a Kindle, did not hesitate to give him, after having shown him how to read Faulkner, Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, James Joyce and George RR Martin, whose books were loaded on the machine.
Man admits he makes a good living, and he did not hesitate when he saw Paul, the homeless, always considered the same book. “ I could not [Kindle, Ed] put in my bag knowing that someone would be so happy for something that cost so cheap to me. “
On Reddit, users react more or less the story: if some do not hide their emotion, others worry about charging the battery of the ebook reader. One wonders if the donor told Paul that he was entering a golden prison, the owner of the Kindle system, he could not use his digital library on an unrelated ebook reader Kindle to their account …
We remember that in 2009, the late Jean-Marc Roberts, editor at Stock, had reported that the ebook reader and digital books were the “ library SDF “. What a visionary …
Sources : Syracuse, The Independent
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