A couple friends have bought iPads lately, and though I didn’t think I would want one, having seen theirs I am now lusting after the device. It is gorgeous, and the functionality is impressive. I never thought I’d particularly warm to reading a book on a handheld, but the iPad’s reader is so crisp and cool, I’m coming around. So are lots of other people.

At the gym the other day, I saw someone reading a movie script on an iPad, and someone reading a book on the Kindle, and the Kindle looked pathetic by comparison—its screen a dreary gray, its lack of apps, the odd little buttons on its surface—like a prop from some old scifi show. “Lost in Space,” perhaps.

Amazon might be able to milk suckers for another year or so, but Kindle is done. Throw it in the trash next to your typewriter.

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