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Here's a handy tip: You can buy a book and don't have to keep buying the same book for 18 months because the newer book has better contrast, wi-fi, and faster page turning. Revised editions are exempt because it adds useful updates related to the content, not more ways of accessing an online bookstore to spend more money on.

As for trying to put it into educational programs or giving it away as an exposure to younger users, it's like trying to force a public school system to only let children play with expensive, reprehensible male power fantasy like Warhammer tabletop armies instead of chess, or an older, most trusted, cheap, traditional activity. Nothing beats reading paper, at least not yet. Plus with all that money you might as well chip in a few extra dollars for a more useful piece of technology, like a laptop or a tablet. Sure, e-inks are all the rave, but it's pretty illogical to replace paper print for education, at least for now.

Right now if I didn't receive my PRS-650 as a present I wouldn't care if the e-ink industry lived or died, but since I do have it I just hope they'll drop e-book prices for popular books. It's not like they needed the markup to pay for a printing press machine for all those pages, or they're just gouging digital content because of a niche market. Like lame Warhammer armies.