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Kill The Kindle!

Posted at 3:08PM Saturday 02 Jun 2012

In home of the Hay Festival, bookshop boss goes to war on gadget that 'turns readers into robots' and has called for Kindles and other e-book readers to be banned from the event.

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Guardian: Banning Kindles is no way of celebrating books


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