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Stephen Downes

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Somebody - in this case, Judy Breck - makes the oddly necessary point that it isn't actually necessary to use an app, Kindle or other, to read a book on the iPhone. Which means that what you're installing when you're installing a Kindle app isn't the ability to read books, but rather, the ability to be blocked from reading books unless you pay. Not something I'd go out of my way for. Which makes me wonder why all of a sudden we read such adulation for the technology. And it is worth keeping in mind that good press is usually paid for with good money.

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