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差不多两年前，我试用过一次盛大出品的锦书（Bambook），各位看官要是有兴趣可以看看那时的评测文章。
上周我忽然又想到这个问题，于是到他们网站上看了看是不是有升级。结果看到了最新的第三代产品：Bambook全键盘II。从名字来看，这次有了Qwerty键盘；从图片来看，这次去掉了我痛恨的摇杆。更有意思的是，这次盛大直接把价格定在499，不是之前的“内测价”998，也不是“正式价”999，更不是盛大高管提出的1499和后来在短信中建议的1299（注：这些数字是有典故的，有兴趣可以看看新浪科技转载自《创业家》杂志的文章：解析盛大锦书计划的前世今生，作者为王冀）。如果是这个价格，那就直接下单买一个吧。
当天下了订单，加价5块买了加急上门，第二天下午就拿到。在正式开始用之前，我还是那个老观点：电子书需要有一个强大的内容平台做支撑，而锦书+盛大是我目前能看到的最有样子的国内硬件+平台的组合。
只是，这个观点在两天之后有点变化。
No wonder why I purchased this book. But the Dalai Lama is always a mystery to me. That could be the reason why I spent some dollars three months ago.
For some reason, I’d like to write this post in English. This is the “one more thing” I learned from Dalai lama. If you want to be really popular, you’d better learn to speak and write in English.
Since Dalai Lama is still a taboo in mainland china. His books are literally not available anywhere. When I visited Seattle in 2009, I had the chance to purchase one copy of The Art Of Happiness. It’s a printed book. There’s a picture of Dalai Lama on the cover. It’s hard to hide that in public. Therefore, I didn’t finish that book till today. Thanks to Kindle, the book finally has a disguise. Nobody could guess what I was reading. I can read Dalai Lama’s book in a place like Tian’anmen Square (It’s a political joke which foreigners hardly understand.).
Dalai Lama was not a daily topic in public propaganda. I can’t remember the first time when I heard his name. But I bet it came with terms like “reactionaries” and “secessionists”. When I have access to internet in late 1990s, I was somehow confused. Dalai Lama was not a bad figure overseas. He looks like an ordinary old man, a highly knowledgeable monk and nice guy. But why his name must be censored? I got no answer. I even didn’t know he is a laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize until the 2008 Tibet unrest. This ignorance made me sad and angry. That’s why most books I read on Kindle are biographies and memoirs.