amendment to "you sort of expect a russian ebook reader to just be made out of paper..."

I have recently learned that Russians are even more clever than i previously thought.
We have all heard the joke about the Russian/US space programs. The americans spent millions developing a pen that writes upside down for space and the russians used a pencil...

Well... apparently, they both started using pencils, but the tips break off and get into the computer resulting in badness...
To solve this NASA developed their million dollar pen that writes upside down.
The Russians realised in zero gravity, there is no upside down and just use a normal pen.

Brilliant