ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Well, some Kindle users seem to enjoy seeing what others find meaningful, but not commentator Andrei Codrescu.</s>ANDREI CODRESCU: Conformism does come of age in the most private of peaceful activities - reading a book, one of the last solitary pleasures in a world full of prompts to behave. My Kindle, sugar-coated cyanide.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Andrei Codrescu is the author of "The Poetry Lesson," which is available for Kindle, but highlight at your own risk.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: This is NPR News.
Commentator Andrei Codrescu is upset that passages on his eBook reader are highlighted. This happens automatically by a crowd-sourcing program. Codrescu says it takes the privacy out of reading.