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Old 10-21-2011, 10:47 AM   #31
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Did you ever see the The Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last? It stared Burgess Meredith as the last man on Earth. He is in a Library surrounded by books. He is in heaven...................until he breaks his glasses.
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Old 10-22-2011, 06:01 AM   #34
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Did you ever see the The Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last? It stared Burgess Meredith as the last man on Earth. He is in a Library surrounded by books. He is in heaven...................until he breaks his glasses.
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nope, but i read about it. i feel bad for him
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Old 10-22-2011, 07:32 AM   #35
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Did you ever see the The Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last? It stared Burgess Meredith as the last man on Earth. He is in a Library surrounded by books. He is in heaven...................until he breaks his glasses.
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I saw that! Man, that freaked me out. The original Twilight Zone has lost none of its potency.

Thankfully, if I'm ever the last woman on earth, my eyes aren't that bad and I can still read without my glasses.
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Old 10-22-2011, 07:39 AM   #36
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I saw that! Man, that freaked me out. The original Twilight Zone has lost none of its potency.

Thankfully, if I'm ever the last woman on earth, my eyes aren't that bad and I can still read without my glasses.
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Old 10-22-2011, 08:13 AM   #37
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Did you ever see the The Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last? It stared Burgess Meredith as the last man on Earth. He is in a Library surrounded by books. He is in heaven...................until he breaks his glasses.
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That's one of my favorites!
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Old 10-22-2011, 09:35 AM   #38
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I saw that! Man, that freaked me out. The original Twilight Zone has lost none of its potency.

Thankfully, if I'm ever the last woman on earth, my eyes aren't that bad and I can still read without my glasses.
Yeah, but in that case you'd trip and fall and get grit in your eyes to scar your corneas or something.
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Old 10-22-2011, 10:19 AM   #39
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Yeah, but in that case you'd trip and fall and get grit in your eyes to scar your corneas or something.
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Old 10-22-2011, 10:49 AM   #40
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That's one of my favorites!
That one and To Serve Man were my favorites. I had read the original story by Damon Knight before I had seen the episode.
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Old 10-22-2011, 04:59 PM   #41
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Old 10-22-2011, 05:41 PM   #42
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I doubt e-readers will completely disappear. There will always be people who want a device in the Goldilocks zone for reading: not too big, not too small, not too heavy. Just right.

A phone's screen is too small (IMO). A tablet is too large for hours of reading lying down on a couch or bed. But your e-reader is small and light enough that you can hold it for hours, in one hand or the other, while enjoying screen approximately the size of a mass market paperback.
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Old 10-22-2011, 10:47 PM   #43
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A $20 cheapo, dedicated eReader with an eInk (possibly color by then?) screen? As long as that comes to pass... bring on the future, I say. I'll take a dozen, please.
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