>>>Charles,
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>>>With a daughter about to start spending a bajillion dollars on college textbooks I really wish she could just buy a CD with the content that she could load onto her notebook computer. If you had the ability to highlighter the text from a reader app.. when she went to review for tests it could condense the chapter down to just what she marked up as being important.
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>>>But I don't want to have to buy her another device even if it does look pretty damn slick!
>>>
>>>Make that device just a little more powerful to support a word processor, spreadsheet and you'd have the prototypical device that would be sufficient for a student's computing needs.
>>>
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>>I think someone already invented this device. It is called PC <g>.
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>You lamerz and your PCs.
I didn't know the word "lamerz"; thanks. I think I have learned more from this thread than from anything else I did this week at work.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
