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Cooled Kindle

The Sacramento Bee has a considered piece this morning on the Kindle - now that the hype has faded a bit. It's a good assessment by someone who isn't a gizmo-freak. Something I hadn't heard of to date was the NowNow program:

The Kindle has many sophisticated features. One is the interactive NowNow program. How does it work?


Amazon.com describes it this way: "(The service) answers a question you may have about literally any topic. When you ask a question, our workers will surf the Web to find the answer. They will then send your Kindle up to three answers to each question."


To test it, I sent this question: What is the meaning of life?


Amazon.com's "workers" were fast in their responses. One lengthy response focused on the philosophy expressed in the five-book "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by the late Douglas Adams.


A second offered an answer that noted, "Some philosophers have asked questions like, 'What does the question "What is the meaning of life?" mean?' and also questioned whether it is a meaningful question."


A third was the most straightforward and our favorite: " 'The Meaning of Life' was a 1983 Monty Python movie.' "

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