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August 21, 2008
Someone is awake over there
I just noticed in the Amazon Kindle's demo video that the very first text that they show you is an excerpt from Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. For those not in the know, Diamond Age is a fantastic sci-fi story centering around a nano-technology based book which can change its pages to show video and different text as needed and is able to download information from the internet (or what the internet becomes). That makes it an inspired choice as the text to show on the Kindle.
Oh, and by the way, you can buy a kindle for $70 off if you have an Amazon Visa and $100 if you are willing to get one. That means you can have it for less than $300. I have to say that is quite tempting. And since you can use the Wisper Net for free with the experimental browser, you can use it to check your email and read your Google Reader for free. Maybe that's not much to the fancy Iphone and Blackberry users out there, but to me I can buy a kindle for the price of less than 6 months worth of internet access on my phone. Woot!
Posted by OneEyedMan at August 21, 2008 10:50 AM
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at August 24, 2008 2:13 PM
I needed a laptop to give presentations for school so I decided to hold off on the Kindle on it and buy the laptop instead.
Posted by: TheOneEyedMan at August 26, 2008 2:48 PM
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