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Tech boiled down: books of the e and Face variety and Jane Austen's Fight Club

I'm going to just keep renaming this weekly feature until I come up with something that sticks. Amazon reported that Kindle ebooks are outselling hardcover books. Note "hardcover". I think this is the best reaction . The latest viral video is Jane Austen's Fight Club . Not absolutely hilarious, but worth a watch. Facebook hit 500 million users . Which, of course, means nothing.

Tech roundup for non-geeks: Week One

I'm still looking for a good name for this collection of tech-ish stories of the week. The comments are open if you'd like to suggest a name. This week: Study looks at teens and why they quit using their Facebook account. The overwhelming number one reason? Not privacy or "old people", but just good ol' fashioned loss of interest . Go figure. Online Photoshop-like tool Picnik is now integrated with Picasa as its online image editor. Picnik is a great, free alternative to Photoshop if you're just doing basic image editing. It looks like Google may be offering the ability to be signed into multiple accounts at the same time. Now if they'd just allow you to completely merge two or more accounts...