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摘要

BETWEEN THE TIME Apple unveiled its first iPad, in January 2010, and its release three months later, a 28-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur named Patrick Buckley had an idea. A lot of Buckley's friends and family had said they were so in love with the feel of books that they couldn't fathom switching to an electronic gadget. Why not create a product that made holding an iPad feel something like cozying up with a book? Only Buckley, like most aspiring inventors, didn't have a basement outfitted with a router drill or any of the other specialized tools needed to create a prototype. Nor did he have the cash needed to pay a high-end design firm to make one for him.