[Avodah] [Areivim] People of the E-Book? Observant Jews Struggle With Sabbath in a Digita

[Hankman]

RSM wrote (on Areivim but moderator felt I should respond on Avodah):

My (Sony) ebook reader automatically turns itself off if nobody interacts
with it for 30 minutes. On my computers, screensavers cut in after the same
period or less.

 
CM responds:

So which is your point? 1) The computer is chayav for mechikas Shem  2) The person should be required to interact with the computer at least every 29 minutes without fail (or until Shabbos arrives), because it could not be that since it will be erased in 30 minutes anyway, you are patur for mechika if you do it sooner - could it? [If you write on a box containing dynamite that is timed to explode in 30 minutes but erase it before it explodes, by your example there would be no ksiva or mechika?]

Kol tuv

Chaim Manaster
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