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And in MOBI format on Kindle, the content seems to be pretty readable - even for technical books with pictures?

Thats great, those are two of the reasons I was looking to get Simple Touch GlowLight; plus it is much lighter than carrier around some books. Unfortunately I am planning to read some technical books as well so I'm hoping someone here can shed some light on how it works on that area.

Right, what about my level of knowledge of Javascript? Should I spend a few days hitting it really hard just to learn it or is it something I can pick up on the go if I have a background with Python/C++/Java?

That sounds like it would be pretty useful. What would you suggest as far as the database? I plan on using Postgres on Heroku and will be either be using SQLAlchemy or Django's ORM. What would be a good way to approach this problem? I was planning on doing something similar, making a diagram of all of the models/tables I will need, and additionally writing out all of the details of each relationship and possible entities I will need to add in the future.

So would you say math/philosophy would be useful in more of a research type position? In that case you would probably need even higher levels of math - so the logic behind philosophy might be useless either way?