2/2 Also, no headphone jacks and no removable storage. 🙄 Buy every adapter now if you want physical media. Huge privacy & consumer rights issues.

Hold onto your devices as long as you can. Recently traded in a 7-yo Samsung. Google instantly started sucking up photos & filling my storage, the weather widget has unskippable ads, and Samsung has farmed out many old features for crappy Google ones. 😭 1/2

That is huge! Congrats! 🎉

Fight the man. Learn how to spell without AI.

Such a beautiful book! 😭

I did think it was worthwhile! I expected to see the influences on Jane Austen (since that was how I found the book), but I was also surprised by how Dickensian it felt. Not sure we talk enough about what Dickens owed to the many women writers who came before him.

4/x Compare to the portrayal of John Belmont, who comes in for no criticism at all, having multiple children by multiple women that he doesn't support or keep track of. 🙄🙄🙄

3/x Also cringey how much of the humor comes from punching down at Evelina's French grandmother and her poorer relations. Evelina looks bad in a modern light for her failure to stand against this. Mme Duval really has no sin other than being French. 🙄 #booksky

2/x That said, I sort of understand why it has fallen from the canon. The epistolary format never lets us "know" Lord Orville in the way we feel we know Darcy or Capt. Wentworth.

2/2 Enshittification is a book with a timely message about big tech and the consolidation of everything. I didn't always agree with Doctorow, but I found it worth the read. #booksky

It's been about 10 years since I first read it! Today, the themes of kleptocracy and ordinary people being left behind hit differently. 😔