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Hearst To Launch E-Reader For Newspapers
thefickler writes "The credit crisis couldn't have come at a worse time for newspapers, which were already suffering at the hands of the Internet. Now it seems that the Hearst Corporation is planning to launch an e-reader later this year to try to save its dwindling newspaper readerships. Apparently the e-reader will have a bigger screen than the Kindle, helping it to accommodate ads. It's not clear whether Hearst will go it alone, or try to gather wider industry support for its venture. As one pundit observed, 'it seems a slender thread on which to hang the entire American newspaper industry.'"
Yeah, but will it have free Wikipedia Access?
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
That's what was missing!
"or the waft of a woman's perfume in a library book"
Some women may do this deliberatly, and could be from a practice from the World Wars when female volunteers would write to single soldiers, and would often dab some perfume on the letter.
I take a combination of this old practice and the one of the males of an African Tribe that smear a dab of semen behind their ears.
So next time that waft is a little musty, perhaps salty, then congratulations on reading that book after me.
In post Patriot Act America, the library books scan you.
I smell a new volume unit: The gym bag.
No, that's just your sneakers in there.
"Books provide sensory/sentimental/sensual experiences that e-books can't match." True! Cars just can't match the experience of caring for and riding a horse: the smells, the textures, the sensations, the companionship with another living being.
I daresay the smells are one of the many advantages of using a car over using a horse.
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