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Originally Posted by Crowl
Don't most foreign words that end up in english get used with the same meaning in both english and their original language, which most definitely isn't the case with this word since it is only used in that manner on here.
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It is interesting to note that doing a search on Google for this word primarily returns hits related to the original meanings of this word. Most, if not all meanings found related to the book reader meaning, seem to only point back here. On the other hand, searches on Google for "livre électronique" usually return information related to electronic book readers. All that does not really prove anything about the validity of the word, but does seem to indicate that there is not really any movement towards the adoption of the usage used by a few MobileRead posters.