Justice Scalia Uses an iPad, Justice Kagan a Kindle to Read Briefs

From the description provided for the below YouTube video:

In this excerpt from C-SPAN's interview with Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (airing Sunday, December 19 at 6:30 p.m. ET on C-SPAN), Justice Kagan describes using an Amazon Kindle to read briefs. Included in her comments, "I have a Kindle that my briefs are on. You know I saw Justice Scalia, he said that he had them on an iPad and I thought, huh, maybe I should have them on an iPad. But mine are on a Kindle and I also of course you know sometimes truck them around just on hard copy. So I do both."

Hat tip to OSU Law Prof Douglas Berman's post, Supreme Court Justices are now doing work on iPads and Kindles, when will law students? In his post, Berman writes:

When traveling to speak at various conferences, I have noticed more and more lawyers with iPads and other e-readers. I expect that buzz about the Justices reading briefs on e-readers might add even more juice to the on-going digital revolution in the collection and distribution of legal materials.  And if law schools do not get with the program soon, I fear we will be doing even worse than usual in training the next generation of lawyers.

[Emphasis added.]

See also Brian Malcom's A Supreme Decision: iPad v. Kindle on Young Lawyers Blog ("Imagine all the trees the federal courts could save if they went entirely paperless.") [JH]