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Sony announce more competition for books
Posted by Sheev on 25 August 2009 - 4:25pm.
From The Wall Street Journal
"Sony Corp. unveiled Tuesday a wireless electronic book reader that could be the strongest competitor yet to Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle reader this holiday season
Going to get one - or in the face of the endless tech wave do you wish life had, like, a pause, button?
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I'm waiting for Apple's new Tablet
Due in September. Or not.
We'll see.
As for like, a pause button. Nah. I use the old style method of just ignoring the stuff that means nothing to me. S'easy enough.
I have only just bought a DVD player
so it is doubtful if I'll be rushing out to embrace this new technology. If you wait long enough it will either be much cheaper or obsolete
actually
i was discussing get one for my dad who's eyes aren't great and yet he's a life long reader . He likes big thick popular science books which are abit heavy on the wrist and have tiny print so a reader might be the way forward. Funny how new technology is always presumed to be for the young and trendy!
Silver surfers
Lot of evidence to show that highest take-up of web based services including social media and other digital technologies is in the 55+ categories