Amazon's Kindle electronic book thing

Poor old Amazon still thinks it's 1996, and we're still all impressed by the limitless potential of digital media. Hence the Amazon Kindle - an electronic book. All the inconvenience of a battery-powered device, with none of the benefits of having a hard drive to hide pornography on:



It can run for 30 hours, which isn't particularly impressive for a book. Some proper books came out more than 100 years ago and are still going. It also costs $399. And requires a subscription. All this, just to read books. It's a rare case of technology making a thing significantly worse for everyone.