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Better solution: Stop printing things.

If we stop printing things, we won't need to scan them either.

Yes, but reading from paper is much nicer.

Of course, printing every little e-mail is nonsense; but I'd rather correct my thesis on paper than on screen, for instance.

If you had a tablet with a Kindle-like screen upon which you could edit via gesture, would you prefer it over paper?

Not unless the input is at least as convenient as scribbling on paper. And I wouldn't be sure even then.

I'm a mathematician: I do a lot of work on paper, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

I still need paper for on the go. I print very little, but certain times I need to print papers for meetings to take notes on etc

With a kindle, how do you keep multiple pages in front of you at the same time?

That's not to mention e-books as sources. Even if we figure out the virtual library issues (lest we bankrupt every grad student -- comprehensives in the social sciences can encompass 200 books!) we still have to look at workflow. Should the grad student have 4 kindles all synced, every e-book markable with programmable gestures both robust and simple enough to compete with paper?

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