No accounting for Kindle in '97.

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Such technology - if more widespread - would, of course, make this kind of informal, commuter-based research that much more difficult to undertake:

http://www.williambains.co.uk/batcave/battexts/trainbok.htm

Similarly, short of using dampening fields and signal-blockers, we may experience some notional etiquette shifts thanks to the ubiquity of Blackberries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/us/22smartphones.html

This one's primarily for K and D, because expressing outrage at the casual use (and defence) of "Wikipedia Wisdom" in online academic fora breaks the code, and potentially limits profits:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/217500.html

'Nuff said (literally), except that I'm still catching up with personal e-mail after yesterday's adventures, so cheers - as ever - for your patience. (Sorted - just about.)