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I was working at Amazon.com when they brought the Kindle out. It's a neat little device. For leisure reading, I think it's great, but I don't think it'll be good for educational purposes. As a few have already mentioned, you can't write notes in the margins, highlight, etc, in. Also, you can only have one book open at a time. If you're trying to write a paper or study, you can only refer to one book at a time, which would have driven me crazy. I'm currently ghostwriting a book, and since I'm also having to translate parts of it from notes written in Russian, not to mention using other books as references, only being able to view one document at a time would add significant amounts of time to my task.
I think the initial cost may keep a lot of people from getting a Kindle or similar. I also figure most people will use it in conjunction with books.
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