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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Sony won't have that, most likely... It'll be the walkman all over again! (only sony was allowed to carry the name "Walkman", all others where portable cassette players).

I don't know why Sony would object to using PRS. I still call my cassette/CD players "Walkman". I would think they would like the free advertising and the fact that it gives their brand enormous market recognition.

Originally Posted by Ea

Nah, it's not difficult, it's pronounced like an 'ø'


I really, really hope not, but I am afraid it might well happen - It happened to the walkman, xerox, aspirin, hoover.... It has almost happened with the iPod.

I can't understand why I should mind though - perhaps because I have issues with Amazon's Kindle business model and because it's not available here? I think it annoys me that it steals the show from other great ebook readers, when it's only available in USA.

Back to the OP; I tend to use 'ebook reader' or 'reading device' or 'e-reader'. An ebook is the book file, not the device. I think I overall prefer 'ebook reader'

PS: Would pleople mind being the tiniest bit more serious? I've just waded through a great deal of 'unutterably silliness' - it's the wrong forum.

Sorry about this, EA. Unfortunately, that's the nature of conversations. They tend to be fluid and take on lives of their own. Thankfully, the "silly' posts were kept fairly short.

Originally Posted by eReaderPlanet

I read a while back there was some organization on a campaign to take the dash out of e-mail, making it just email. Not sure why, and I couldn't find anything about them on the Web.

I hardly ever see it spelled with a hyphen any more and I know my spell checker accepts "email" as the correct spelling. If it's good enough for Spell Checker, it's good enough for me.