Amazon Kindle - Electronic Reading Device

[ZeeJustin]

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Can you explain what this is and what it has to do with the Nerd Rapture/Kurzweil?

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He basically said that devices like this will make books obsolete. This technology is almost there.

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All I got was that it was basically an iPod that displayed PDFs

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It's lighter than a single book, a screen that is easier on the eyes than a book (let alone a screen), it can access hundreds of thousands of books, who knows how many blogs and magazines, is wireless, adds search functions/highlight functions/tons of other stuff you could never get from an ipod or iphone.

Why would anyone ever use a book again once this becomes cheap?