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The Weight of an e-Book

Posted by samzenpus on from the because-he-can dept.

whoever57 writes "According to Prof Kubiatowicz from Berkeley, each time an additional book is downloaded to an e-reader, the mass of the e-reader increases. The effect doesn't really make the devices more difficult to carry: the professor calculates that 4GB of books would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram— about the mass of a single virus or DNA molecule."

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  1. So it turns out.... by TheInternetGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    So it turns out, pirating is stealing after all?

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    1. Re:So it turns out.... by TheInternetGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

      You mean, she knows I'm down here?

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    2. Re:So it turns out.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      #!/usr/bin/bash

      # steal.sh

      cp $1 $2

      dd if=/dev/zero of=$1

  2. Re:this is the most retarded thing i've ever read by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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