Amazon today began promoting a new gift idea that should appeal to the literate (as well as to procrastinators looking for a last-minute alternative to the ever-popular “back-rub coupon”)–Kindle e-books can now be given to anyone with an e-mail address. And you don’t have to worry about whether the recipient owns a Kindle device per se, because a bunch of free reader apps make a Kindle out of pretty much anything with a screen.
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