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Old 11-22-2007, 08:43 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by montsnmags View Post
So, I don't see the Kindle as ugly, and here's why - to me, they've constructed something that has that potboiler, airport paperback, feel about it - yes, dated, and yes, plain, and just a tad clunky...sort of like a heavily-used paperback. Perhaps, in their eyes, and certainly to my aesthetic faculties, its design is aimed towards that, as "Keep buying more (new release) paperbacks"
Very good analogy! It's a nice pulpy ebook reader. I've always been a paperback sorta guy...
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