It’s Christmas again. We have 6 weeks more or less to get find the perfect gifts for the ones we love
(and the in-laws). Of course what will actually happen is you’ll do nothing untill December 20th and then, if you’re anything like me, you’ll race out to stores you know the jingles for (Farmers, Whitcouls, Briscoes, et al) to buy DVDs, books, vouchers, magazine subscriptions, perfume, bathrobes… Yawn.

Here are some practical gadget gift ideas that, providing the recipients haven’t beat you to the punch and bought for themselves, should be sure to please.  As a bonus you can purchase them all online. Easy peasy.

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As e-readers grow in popularity, a debate is growing about how well proprietary formats such as Amazon.com uses with the Kindle will do against more open approaches that allow users to download e-books to just about any device.

LibreDigital is previewing its AllAccess content delivery platform to allow publishers, authors and book resellers to offer book readers the option of downloading and reading e-books they purchase on virtually any device, such as a desktop computer, Apple iPhone, Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader.

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