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Book Poundage
By Rick | December 26, 2007
There’s a humorous video at Cracked.com that purports to introduce us to the Kindle’s target audience - hypothetical readers who lug around great quantities of books everywhere they go, including reference works and “The Complete Works of Shakespeare”.
Amazon.com’s Kindle allows you to carry up to 200 books with you at all times. It’s like a big ugly iPod for people who like to read. Which raises the important question: who the hell reads that much?
Although the video pokes fun at the notion that anyone would need to carry their entire library with them everywhere they go, I confess I’m often torn when it comes to going on a trip and figuring out which books and publications I’m going to take with me. The iPod solved that problem when it came to figuring out which CDs you were going to take with you; you take them all now. The same may be said of the Kindle some day, even though there’s little room for putting your books on “shuffle”.
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