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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I'm a Kindle owner, and I agree that "Kindle" and "e-reader" shouldn't be used interchangeably. The Kindle isn't the only e-reader out there.
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True, but such misuse of brand names has happened before. Rollerblades and Xerox come to mind right off the bat. Both are brand names of products rather than the names of the things themselves, but rather than saying inline skates or photostatic copy people talk about their new rollerblades or getting a xerox even when the actual item being used is under another brand name. I can easily see the Kindle brand name being used as a general term for ereader in the same way.