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The Kindle Ate His Homework

By The Daily Dish

Aug 3 2009, 8:17 AM ET

And now the student is suing:

[Justin Gawronski] was reading his copy of 1984 as a summer assignment for school, and had been using one of the Kindle's selling pointsthe ability to attach notes to specific parts of the e-book textto prepare for his return to school. Since he was actively reading the work when Amazon pulled the plug, he actually got to watch the work vanish from his screen.



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