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Old 02-11-2015, 11:17 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux View Post
If a Rabbi deems reading an eBook on Shabbos is kosher, then pbooks will not be retained. But until such a ruling is made, the Shabbos-reading market might be big enough to sustain pbooks.
I'd like to see the Rabbi that can pull that off we tend to be very traditional, by design.

It would have to be a consensus amongst the top poskim before it would stick, and I cannot see any of them justifying a total redaction of the ban on using electrical gadgets on Shabbos.

TBH ebooks in the Jewish religious world have not really caught on a lot from what I have seen.
Not because of Shabbos issues -- just because we are mostly behind the eight ball when it comes to technology. "They" (fringe nuts) have already tried banning the internet, and compromising on mandatory filtering... most amusing.

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