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Originally Posted by Manichean
It's an electronic device that reads ebooks. Thus, an ebook reader.
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Actually, it does not *read* your book. It *displays* your book(s)
(Yes, I know, som newer ebook-readers do read it out loud for you)
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Originally Posted by James_Wilde
You've made me wonder why we still call a computer a computer. When it got its name, that's basically what it did - compute complicated sums faster than a person could do it.
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That's not entirely correct. A "computer" in the "olden days" was a person who did mathematical computations. "human computers".
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