[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

[Larry Schwartz]

O.K., the discussion has now reached the point where I can say that the 
Kindle is this month's/week's/year's microcard; you remember microcards, 
the amazing LIBRARY IN A BOX.  Everybody has 'em, and they have the 
special readers -- for which spare parts can be found on eBay.  Only the 
passage of time made it clear that folks _not_ in charge of libraries or 
their funding agencies didn't necessarily want libraries in boxes.

The Kindle _may_ rival pre-separated pieces of bread, but prudence 
dictates caution -- and vice-versa (as Baron Frankenstein would've 
counseled, if only he had the time).  And does no-one remember the 
marketing concept of "planned obsolescence?"  ls.

-- 
Larry Schwartz, Collection Management Librarian
Livingston Lord Library
Minnesota State University Moorhead
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