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Op-Ed: A 'Kindle Society' Can Be Literate On this week's opinion page, Jacob Weinberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, focuses on the new Kindle device. He asks: "Why should a civilization that reads electronically be any less literate than one that harvests trees to do so?"
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Op-Ed: A 'Kindle Society' Can Be Literate

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Op-Ed: A 'Kindle Society' Can Be Literate

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Op-Ed: A 'Kindle Society' Can Be Literate

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On this week's opinion page, Jacob Weinberg, editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, focuses on the new Kindle device. In a recent opinion piece on Slate.com, he asked: "Why should a civilization that reads electronically be any less literate than one that harvests trees to do so?"