All the mac tragics are presently frothing about the iSlate
(reportedly announced next week), which will be apparently the Next
Big Thing for ebooks. They is at War!!!
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100201/solnit
xA
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:22 AM, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Undersize me, Max. That's priceless. Andrew
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> 2010/1/22 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>:
>> Quoting Angel Robert Marquez <[log in to unmask]>:
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>>> kindle
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>> I dare say Melburnians are heavily into Kindle, but only two days ago we saw our
>> first one in use in a public place.
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>> We were in our local McDonalds for a late cappuccino (skim milk, please) and the
>> woman at the next table was engrossed in her Kindle.
>> It's the first we've seen, we told her. Tell us about it.
>> She showed it off proudly.
>> Happens she was reading a book on weight-loss.
>> All round us supersize macburgers were being consumed.
>>
>> Max
>>
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