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My heartwarming moment…

Category : Book Trade News, Fun Stuff

…might not be quite what you’re expecting but this comment on the Engadget site’s brandspanking new iPad hands-on post just warmed the cockles of my old, curmudgeonly, fringe-geeky heart.

AlwaysThinkin Posted Jan 27th 2010 3:15PM
@xCrunk it’s not that heavy, I used to hold the Kindle DX in one hand for long periods and it’s not much smaller. And I used to shoot womp rats too.

<3

Oh yeah and there was this Apple iPad launch thingy, change the face of computing as we know it, books dead in the water, who’s got a spare $1000 then?, we’ll all have one in a years time, bow down to the mighty Apple and say And yea did Steve create the iWorld and on the 6th day did Steve see every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. Except it needed an iPad, so he did that too.

Kindle what, eh?

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