Undoubtedly, everybody reading this knows the news: Osama bin Laden is dead.

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So, if the Kobo reader isn't quite the future of reading devices, it's certainly firmly entrenched in the present, with enough likeable qualities at a price point that few could argue with, to keep it on our list of readers we wouldn't mind spending a night at home curled up with on the sofa, reading Wuthering Heights while our significant other plays Red Dead Redemption.

ENGADGET: Kobo e-reader review

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

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