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Re:Everything's broken and nobody's upset by prawks on Monday September 17, 2012 @11:04AM (#4532871)
"Hey I read this great book the other day!" "Oh really? That sounds really cool!" "Yeah, here you can borrow it..... Oh wait never mind..." " :( "

I don't think it really beats paper materials in logistics. You're buying proprietary books. 14-day lending to other people (who may not have a Kindle) doesn't really solve that.

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Re:Everything's broken and nobody's upset by aasarava on Monday September 17, 2012 @01:01PM (#4533536)
For what it's worth, there is a Kindle reader app that lets you read books w/o an actual Kindle. But I agree that lending restrictions (and the question of who really owns the copy of the book) do make things more difficult.
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Re:Everything's broken and nobody's upset by sliverstorm on Monday September 17, 2012 @06:40PM (#4535287)
It doesn't beat paper materials in all forms of logistics, but it is superior in most of the ways I usually care about.
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Re:Everything's broken and nobody's upset by TeMPOraL on Monday September 17, 2012 @12:02PM (#4533176)
But then keep bringing your 1000+ pages book and a few magazines with you to the bus, to read en-route...
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