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Call me old-fashioned, but I’ve always felt that sitting down with a good book generally beats the pants off anything that television has to offer.  Sure, I enjoy the occasional episode of NCIS and will sometimes watch shows like America’s Got Talent just to see the acts that didn’t quite make the cut.  I prefer, however, to let my own imagination run wild instead of relying upon someone else’s vision when discovering a new story.  It’s a lot more immersive for me that way.

Well, while “watching” one of said shows on an overhead monitor at the gym last night I caught a glimpse of something on another screen that I had been meaning to take a look into: an e-book reader.  I didn’t catch the exact model number, but it looked similar to one that I had seen every now and then on BestBuy.com.  As I learned when I got home the reader turned out to be Sony’s PRS-505, and it was being discussed in response to the following announcement:

http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/computer_peripheral/e_book/release/41133.html

Now, I’m not entirely convinced that cold, shiny metal and EPUB files will ever fully take the place of time-worn pages and paper cuts, but it’s certainly good to see that “classic literature” staples like Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson, and George Bernard Shaw are being given exposure to a new generation in this medium.  I was also a bit surprised – and slightly amused – at the fact that one of the advertised books on the service’s landing page was Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.

[Insert child-like giggling…here.]