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So amazon has an ebook service and a pretty neat little reader. Ok, so eInk is really cool, take that as read. And I agree that the important part of a book is the data, not the medium. But the thing costs $400 freakin’ dollars. It isn’t compatible with my favorite book service, so if I want to read books on it I need to provide my own text or shell out $10 a book. I am just not really sold on the thing. Intellectually I understand that digital data ought to be distributed digitally.

But I would like to avoid having to spend money for yet another kind of media-viewing device, and frankly, I like books.