I always wanted to try one of those for sheet music. The Sony nameplate always put me off, though. I keep hoping someone else makes a large screen PDF reader for the musician market. If it could run Musescore, I'd pre-order.

various janky Chinese and Russian devices

Some of the Chinese ones aren't so "janky". I've seen Chinese-made ebook readers and tablets that were pretty darn nice, especially for the money.

No, screw that. If we had a Justice Department that was worth a damn, Amazon would be broken up into a dozen different companies. No way they should be allowed to control the e-book market AND the ebook reader market. Plus the Amazon Prime content and the music/movie business.

Amazon is why anti-trust laws were passed in the first place.

Now I hate Sony like sin itself, and would never buy any of their products, but there's no way they should get chased out of the ebook reader market because of illegal competition.

Not to mention the toxic combination of Cheetos and Monster energy drink belches. Thing could get nasty in a hurry.

Imagine ten pounds of bologna in a five-pound bag.

I've knitted cozies for my collection of handguns.

It had better be washable. If you catch my drift.

I also heard he cross-checked a nurse.

...with 5 year contract at %150 the going rate, and a cancellation penalty of death.

Didn't Comcast just top the list of most hated companies? To beat outfits like Monsanto, you've got to work hard. A press release about charitable works just isn't going to change that.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, CIA director John Brennan, actress Julia Roberts, you and I are all potential terrorists.

And if you don't believe him, just try to sit through "Eat, Pray, Love".

You'll be praying for an airliner to crash into your DVD player.

There are less than 2^33 people in the world.

And I hope it stays that way.

This is why I only speak pig latin on the cell phone.

Google aren't opening up individual mailboxes for a quick squiz.

Unless they want to.

How does the two "L" in really and the two "T" in letters sound like?

Just like you think it would. It sounds like I have a neurological disorder.

I'm curious, am I supposed to pronounce the superfluous vowels that Australians put in words like "favourite" or "colour"?

I've tried it and it's kind of fun, but people tend to look at me strange.

I think I've decided that I don't really believe in silent letters, so from now on, I'm pronouncing everything.