One wonders if the name “Paperwhite”, which reads so closely to the much more commonly used “paperweight” is some sort of weird prognostication about where the Kindle is ultimately going to end up?
I don’t claim to know anything special about the Kindle, or even enough to have a valid opinion about whether it is “lousy”, or “great”. All I know is that when I read the name, my brain registered “paperweight”, which seems a whole lot like the way we referred to AOL CDs and their ilk as “coasters” in the 1990s.
