Suzi LeVine has the honor be the first ambassador of the United States of America sworn on an electronic device.
On 2 June became his country’s representative in Switzerland after making a public commitment on an e-reader or ebook reader Kindle Amazon , including officially founded.
The oath took place on 19 class=”bold”> , you downloaded for the occasion. You can see the summit of the ceremony on the picture to open the news time.
This is Suzi LeVine , big fan of digital reading, and new U.S. Ambassador in Switzerland:
Amazon introduces its 3D smartphone June 18
your Twitter account , Suzi Levine about his experience, and clarifies that swore on the Constitution, and . rather than on the Bible
It also shows us that he read the votes:
From the legal point of view, the oath of office required to use a particular text but says nothing of the support on which is written, so using a Kindle instead of a paper book, is perfectly valid.
Last February, a group of firefighters from New Jersey also swore their charge on an e-reader where they had downloaded an ebook of The Bible . According count in this case was because they had no paper handy Bible:
In 2008 , paper books in the USA. 2013 had dropped to 10,000 million . 2017 fall to 8.000 million.
The fact is, half that ebooks are consolidated it is normal that such acts are increasingly common
[Sources:. 20minutos.es , The Washington Post ]
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