I will buy million of those. Please make it fast before I change my mind.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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In the last few years, people have been pointing out an emergent benefit of ink on dead tree books: there are no banner ads, no tracking cookies, no social media integration, no gamification, no information about your reading habits sent to Google's data mines. When you buy a physical book, you own it, and nothing you do with it can be tracked, monetized, advertised, or subscriptionized.
And I bet some tech bro heard that and said "Hold my beer".
Biggest reason I absolutely LOVE my manga collection. No way an advertiser can insert their bullshit after I've purchased a physical volume or collection.
And my wank mags. Try and make me verify my age to look at pictures of boobies will you?!
Haha losers, I self host my digital library!
And that's the problem with books - from a tech bros perspective. Once bought, books can't be monetized any further. They can even be shared at no cost. If libraries weren't a thing already, their introduction today wouldn't be possible.
I have a $25 shit tablet from Amazon and pirate epubs. They're also backed up a few ways on my network and offsite.
That’s why i dislike reading on kindle. The comfort still outweighs the cons, but when it gives me “estimated reading times” my skin crawls
This "ai bookmark" has somehow taken the throne for the stupidest ai device - and that's a crowded room of challengers
Can I just have the bookmark read everything for me? I’ll just melt into a puddle of lazy stupid.
tries it for smut AI bookmark:"I cannot read this because It violates our content policy."
And there's gonna be ads every 5 minutes. What a fantastic experience.
Have you heard about the concept called "an audio book"?
I don’t want it to read to me, I want it to read for me. No thoughts, head empty. Let the AI think for me. I am unnecessary.
🤣 Ah! Voluntary vegetative state...
No, but the second iteration, Bookmark2, will be much thinner and have a longer battery life.
Since that bookmark is supposed to give you an AI summary of what you have read before the bookmarks placing, just place the bookmark at the last page - it probaby will summarize the whole book for you then.
Imagine this: You pick up the book with the bookmark in place and due to its top-heavy design it slips out of the book and shatters on the ground. Now your 129-$-bookmark is damaged beyond repair and you don't know where to pick up reading!
But hey, at least you get to read the book as the author meant it now, and not through the lense of AI.... :D
just use the receipt from the physical book purchase from your local used bookshop. or buy a bookmark from them.
useless trash, that's all this is. remember to cancel all subscriptions and stop consuming. let them feel it... doubt it'll happen because people are EASILY swayed with junk and like being abused apparently. Sigh... world's so bad
Buy a bookmark? For like $5? Use the $5 bill instead, and have some emergency coffee money with your book at all times.
yeah, to support local businesses that sell actual books
I made one in school for my mum back in… 2003? She still uses it
Or make a bookmark! My friends have done that and made them all artistic and stuff
Love this. I don't want to read books. I want to have read books. I heard that if you read a certain amount of books that when you die you get an achievement.
Been saying for years I wish I could spend less time lost in a good book and more time making my boss rich.
/s ? Please let there be an /s ?
Despite Poe's law, I'm reasonably confident OP is in fact being sarcastic. But because of Poe's law, we'll probably never know for certain.
I can read just fine, thank you
Finally, someone has thought up a product more stupid and overpriced for what it is than juicero
You literally have to tell it what page you're on and what book you're reading. Then it sends it to the phone you already have.
What the fuck is the bookmark for?
The bookmark is for making money.