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> Real books don't get downloaded once and
> then distributed illegally. end of argument really.
I beg to differ. I've got a friend who downloads tons of RL books like that.
They scan, OCR, and PDF them. I don't know how they have so much patience.
They do a very good job too.
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"Dearmad" <dea### [at] applesnake net> wrote in message
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> No thank you. Yuck to all e-options as the *only* option. If
> packaged in *addition* to a book made of dead tree parts, that
> would be fine, but I want trees slaughtered so I can hold it in
> my hands and flip the pages.
>
"This book is made of 100% recycled trees"
The only thing I find e-books tolerable for is when I know the book well and
just want to search for something in particular.
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"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote :
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> "This book is made of 100% recycled trees"
>
> The only thing I find e-books tolerable for is when I know the book well
and
> just want to search for something in particular.
That's what I thought until I started using them regularly. While they
will never replace paper for me, I have acquired a taste for reading on the
screen. I choose a large font and readjust my chair for a more relaxed
position and move my keyboard so that I can reach the page-down key from
where my arm naturally lays...
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I can't wait till that e-ink technology really takes off.
Sure will be great to carry around a couple books in one "page". :)
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"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
news:3c5fd620@news.povray.org...
>
> That's what I thought until I started using them regularly. While they
> will never replace paper for me, I have acquired a taste for reading on the
> screen. I choose a large font and readjust my chair for a more relaxed
> position and move my keyboard so that I can reach the page-down key from
> where my arm naturally lays...
>
Well, I do that for kareoke... I dunno, it just seems that e-books, with current
technology, and despite the obvious advantages, are, ergonomically, a step
backwards*.
* or is that a step sideways? "Backwards" implies a return to something
abandoned - ancient egyptian lcd's. No, "sideways" is no good, since it isn't
negative. Ah, phooey.
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"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
news:3c5ff0fa@news.povray.org...
> "Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
> news:3c5fd620@news.povray.org...
> >
> > That's what I thought until I started using them regularly. While
they
> > will never replace paper for me, I have acquired a taste for reading on
the
> > screen. I choose a large font and readjust my chair for a more relaxed
> > position and move my keyboard so that I can reach the page-down key from
> > where my arm naturally lays...
> >
>
> Well, I do that for kareoke... I dunno, it just seems that e-books, with
current
> technology, and despite the obvious advantages, are, ergonomically, a step
> backwards*.
Ergonomically?!?! I have a -much- better posture and can read for
a -much- longer time when I set up here to read something as compared to a
book. Books require odd positioning, props and pillows, arms that fall
asleep, weird lights that hang off the bedposts on little cranes....
Give me a large screen and an arm rest anytime.
O course, my lovely wife hates it when I bring the large screen to bed
with me so I won't be going full e-book any time soon.
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Forgive my ignorence, I have never used an eBook. It would seem that
one possible advantage would be a flexible ability to update
information. Is that part of the eBook model?
-Jim
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"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3C6### [at] aolcom...
>
>
> Forgive my ignorence, I have never used an eBook. It would seem that
> one possible advantage would be a flexible ability to update
> information. Is that part of the eBook model?
Should be, but mostly isn't.
I think that will change in a year or two as authors find that they need
to keep adding value to keep attracting readers.
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"Bill DeWitt" <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
news:3c601e9a$1@news.povray.org...
>
> Ergonomically?!?! I have a -much- better posture and can read for
> a -much- longer time when I set up here to read something as compared to a
> book. Books require odd positioning, props and pillows, arms that fall
> asleep, weird lights that hang off the bedposts on little cranes....
>
Well, "ergonomically" was really the wrong word - about the only place I never
read a book is in front of the computer (except for IT reference). I guess
reading a book on something like a Palm might be okay, but I think I'd miss the
tactile quality of a paperback. Bottom line, most places I read books are not
really suitable, in terms of comfort or convenience, for a monitor.
> Give me a large screen and an arm rest anytime.
>
> O course, my lovely wife hates it when I bring the large screen to bed
> with me so I won't be going full e-book any time soon.
>
Doesn't the 'orrible one mind? ;)
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"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote :
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> but I think I'd miss the
> tactile quality of a paperback.
I think we all agree on that. But as I said, there are advantages once
you get used to the lack of that quality that make up for the loss in many
cases.
> Doesn't the 'orrible one mind? ;)
Um... do you mean the cat? She really misses trying to mark the edge of
my book and attempting to lay on it while I read it. Like I said, we all
agree that the tactile quality is important.
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