Apparently, to some, they are. Or, maybe to just one particularly unhinged, paranoid writer.
Read this improbably hysterical screed by Alan Kaufman (writing at the Huffington Post, which goes some way to explain why this ridiculous piece was published in the first place) in its entirety if you dare, or just read the following bits:
When I hear the term Kindle I think not of imaginations fired but of crematoria lit.
... and we're off to a cracking start. If an electronic book-reader immediately brings to mind the greatest crime against humanity since the Inquisition, I'm not sure we can expect a great deal of sober, rational discourse either about technology or Nazis. Good lord, what this chap must think of iPods, netbooks ... what fevered nightmares and night-terrors must this man have suffered when SMS arrived and people stopped talking to each other? But persist we must - I could, after all, be wrong.
