Senior Moment

I am not a person that takes gadgets lightly, although that's the way I like to carry them. Take the Kindle 2, a sleek, mobile device to carry and read electronic books. I used to see a few of them here and there -- now they are multiplying like Tribbles. Being an avid follower of Project Gutenberg and adept at using Plucker to view e-books on my Palm, even material that I generated myself, it's hard for me to buy into a Kindle 2. But then I realized: "It's the content, stupid." I used to look at hardware and realize that the real value was the software. Now I look at the hardware and the software and realize that the real value is in the content and the service.