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November 12, 2009

"If I look outside my window and I see my student reading Chaucer under a tree, it is utterly immaterial to me whether they're doing so by way of a Kindle or by way of a paperback."

- JAMES TRACY,headmaster at Cushing Academy, a Massachusetts boarding school, on its decision to replace library books with digital versions

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