The Weight of an e-Book

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Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 31, @02:21AM
from the because-he-can dept.

whoever57 writes "According to Prof Kubiatowicz from Berkeley, each time an additional book is downloaded to an e-reader, the mass of the e-reader increases. The effect doesn't really make the devices more difficult to carry: the professor calculates that 4GB of books would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram? about the mass of a single virus or DNA molecule."

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/b9Y8LhJaVYc/the-weight-of-an-e-book

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