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Jack Tingle · 03-02-2014, 08:43 AM

Last year I got rid of all of my old, obsolete Pocket PC/Windows Mobile PDAs. Off to the town recycling fair with them, in an old shoebox.

Now, I have a pristine but used Ectaco jetBook, with original packaging, etc. that's going the way of the gaucho. This one will probably follow my old laptop to Best Buy's breaker's yard. I really should include my busted Kindle 3 as well.

There's something sad about getting rid of ebook readers. It's not like getting rid of books, where you can donate them to the library or sell them to a used book shop so someone else can read them. I still have the books. The old readers are just a husk, a mortal coil, shed and forgotten.

03-02-2014, 08:43 AM	#1
Jack Tingle Punctuation Fetishist Posts: 557 Karma: 1070000 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: The Bluest Commonwealth In East America Device: Kindle PW, Nexus 7 (2013), Galaxy S5 phone, Galaxy Tab 4 8.0	A slowly falling tide of used e-readers Last year I got rid of all of my old, obsolete Pocket PC/Windows Mobile PDAs. Off to the town recycling fair with them, in an old shoebox. Now, I have a pristine but used Ectaco jetBook, with original packaging, etc. that's going the way of the gaucho. This one will probably follow my old laptop to Best Buy's breaker's yard. I really should include my busted Kindle 3 as well. There's something sad about getting rid of ebook readers. It's not like getting rid of books, where you can donate them to the library or sell them to a used book shop so someone else can read them. I still have the books. The old readers are just a husk, a mortal coil, shed and forgotten.