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mind / A traditional Christmas?  A traditional Christmas?  A
traditional Christmas?  This year we celebrated 20 years of life
as OPX. We share this anniversary with the first text message,
which was sent on the 3rd December 1992. In twenty years it's
saved lives, ruined romances and driven strict grammarians to
distraction. Now, LOL for everyone other than Prime Ministers,
texting is starting to decline, under threat from newer, smarter
options.  Not all technology seems to be under threat from data
though. Amazon says sales of fountain pens so far this year have
doubled compared with the same period in 2011. They're four
times higher than 2010.  There is something similar happening
here. For every 100 hardbacks Amazon sell, 114 ebooks are
downloaded. We're surprised the margin isn't greater, but as so
often happens, the figures aren't the whole story.  In an
interview with the BBC, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, said: "When
people buy a Kindle they