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O’Reilly has posted video from my session with Keith Fahlgren on e-reading devices.

Please enjoy my despair at the beginning as all the wireless-enabled readers interfere with the microphone.

It might be useful to follow along with the slides in the latter half of my talk, when the camera doesn’t show them.

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