This might not pose that much of a threat to H264, sounds like another OGG or FLAC. Superior in a lot of qualities but largely ignored by the majority

Unless some major device manufacturers or youtube like heavyweights get behind it, it's gonna be pretty much limited to the geek community.

Yes you can:

http://www.amazon.com/kamasutra/dp/B001C83O16/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241633173&sr=8-1

:P

Resale would never be allowed, with regular paper books there is a lot of wear and tear until a point in the poor textbook's life where it's nothing but clumps of pages hanging off the seams and scribbles and doodles all over them.

e-books on the other hand have a virtually infinite life.
Maybe resale could be allowed Amazon removed a few pages added some random scribbles when it passes ownership :)

The library can have a copy soiled, pages torn out, genitalia doodles drawn on useful information, dog eared pages, books splitting at the seams, smelly pages, disease infested pages, someone's love letter/suicide confession between pages and worst of all no copies available.

I agree this device is not for 'exploring authors and genres' (The library is the best for that) but for texts that you need or know you want to own.

I'm buying one as long as it works in the toilet... reading LOTR on the loo was a pain in the butt.

I think the price is for the e-ink technology, I saw someone reading an older 6" kindle a few days ago and the picture quality looks just like paper, no strain on the eyes.

Give it like a month after release, I'm sure some hackers will break it open and port an open linux kernel to it :)

I bet the console would be called 'iPlay'

Eerily enough, I was told to gb2wow within a week of EVE after I commented that shooting beams at lumps of rocks was boring :-)

Don't you dare insult my lord!

Our prophet Larry Wall(PBUH) was the son of the binary god sent down from the usenet heaven to rectify all who had strayed from the blissful path of eternal regular expressions.

Sure the code might look obfuscated but it's a deliberate attempt to weed out the weak and phony followers who cannot see the true beauty of TMTOWDI underneath

Laugh if you will but we'll be the ones transported to an eternal continuum of text processing and process integration in the afterlife. Hope you burn in you Java hell!

I implore thee to burn thy friend at a stake for apostasy is the highest crime against the one true Desktop.

Let they friend die in peace after you utter these divine words before he dies: 'Xorg loves you'.

WoW and Evercrack are too large to be cults. They're major religions.

Now EVE players are a cult, they're always trying to convert everyone

... everyone covered their ears!

Not finding the sickly nerds in the google office cute, female google employees spend most of their day staring at muscular Miguel driving the lawn mower with his shirt off...

Goat poo isn't as bad as cow pies or dog crap.. It's mostly small hardened pellets that deform or crumble rather than stick or squish.

Before reading it I assumed it would have the subtle undercurrent of 'brown ppl = mommy killer' but the book seems pretty benign. Mostly of the pages deal with coping with losing a loved one to a disaster..

Glad no one showed me this book when I was young.. I would have gone into a schizophrenic paranoid dementia :)