KrisM
06-01-2012, 10:25 PM
Did anyone see this? Apparently, someone made a copy of this book for the Nook from a Kindle copy and used the 'find and replace' feature to replace all 'kindle' words with 'Nook'. Funny outcomes...
http://futureoftheinternet.org/war-and-nookd
“As I was reading, I came across this sentence: ‘It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….’ Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the translated) text.
For the sentence above I discovered this genuine translation: ‘It was as if a light had been kindled in a carved and painted lantern….’ "
The Nook version of War and Peace had changed every instance of “kindle” or “kindled” into “Nook” and “Nookd,”...
http://futureoftheinternet.org/war-and-nookd
“As I was reading, I came across this sentence: ‘It was as if a light had been Nookd in a carved and painted lantern….’ Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the translated) text.
For the sentence above I discovered this genuine translation: ‘It was as if a light had been kindled in a carved and painted lantern….’ "
The Nook version of War and Peace had changed every instance of “kindle” or “kindled” into “Nook” and “Nookd,”...