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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Jon: Don't be hard on 'em. They're new here.
BD: Around these parts, we usually refer to e-book reading devices as "dedicated devices" or "dedicated readers," as opposed to "eReader," which, as Jon pointed out, is the proper name of a particular e-book format (like Mobi and ePub, etc).
Of course, Jon is aware that outside of these parts, calling these devices "eReaders" is fairly common...
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I only pick on em these days if they totally full up the word or use it with the same capitalization as the format. But I did answer the question properly after that.