How the Kindle will change the world. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine

How the Kindle will change the world. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine: "I remember Bill Gates, in Slate's Microsoft years, mentioning in an interview that he read our webzine printed out—a tribute that underscored an inherent flaw. For all their advantages in creating and distributing texts, screens have compromised, rather than enhanced, the feeling of being transported into a writer's imaginative universe. You can't curl up with a laptop."