Review: Sony's Reader a step foward

September 27, 2006 REVIEW: Sony's Reader a step foward (AP)

A Sony Reader is shown in New York, Wednesday Tuesday Sept. 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

(AP) -- Books have been a bit of the orphan in the digital world. Music has the iPod. Video has YouTube. Books have, well, Amazon.com, where you can buy them printed on paper.

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