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by tkl 5479 days ago
I've always thought that companies should have emphasized how perfect it is for college students.

Use cases:

-Torrent textbooks. Now you have all ten of your heavy textbooks in one thin compact device. Also, they're now free.

-Sitting in lecture and the professor says something that you'd like to wikipedia. Why haul out a clunky, sleepy laptop when you can do it quickly on your tab. Also, you can read hacker news quite conveniently when the professor is 5 minutes late.

-Write notes. Also, there's got to be some app that let's you draw on your screen so you can record diagrams as well.

-Physically convenient. You can almost completely replace a full backpack with a one-handed 7-inch slab. It also plays music so you can turn on that rain ambience mp3 while you lay on the campus lawn reading any of the millions of ebooks that are now at your whimsical disposal.