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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5066984" data-attributes="member: 19675">Nai, I don't know where you live, but most of the non-Americans I know have learned English as their second or third language, and many learn it well enough to read at a fairly decent level.True, but many of them, in an effort to improve that, have adopted alternative energy sources, either as a national effort or from certain altruistically-minded individuals or organizations.  Solar power cells for powering small appliances- especially including TVs, radios and computers- are becoming increasingly common in the developing world.An excellent point.Still, I wouldn't be surprised to find people pooling their resources to get one (or more, if they can swing it) to have what would essentially amount to a mobile library for their community.As for the Internet access, I know few Nigerian priests who tell me that, while Internet access can be unpredictable outside of African cities, its not non-existent.  The reason?  Most of the developing countries of Africa have found it to be cost-prohibitive to invest in the buried cable networks that form the main structural investment of traditional phone service and have gone straight to cellular to improve their country's infrastructure.  And just like in first world nations, those wireless networks are carrying more than just phone calls. True, true.When I went to Russia, there were restrictions on what kind of electronics I could carry into the country without filling out pages and pages of paperwork.So I just left all of my electronics at home.  AWESOME.  QUIET.  VACATION.But don't underestimate the ability of people to smuggle.  An eReader packed with a few hundred "subversive" works could be quite valuable...and whatever is valuable is viable for sale on the black market.In addition, don't forget the impulse of certain regimes to get their hands on the technology themselves, either to retro-engineer the tech for their own purposes or in the form of state-subsidized industrial espionage for producing their own counterfeited tech.</blockquote>

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