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Old 08-18-2008, 03:58 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
No no no! That would ruin everything! Who would want a book dumped into their heads? Well, maybe it if was something like downloaded to a brain, but then you could just close your eyes and read it. So you still get the entertainment of reading, just don't have to worry about hardware. I dunno, then there is the problem of sorting out the different formats, and would our brains be able to use PDFs, and what would happen if you had traumatic head injury....
I for one would love to be able to close my eyes and drift off while reading a book, think of all the serendipituous exploring you could do while browsing a mental book collection.

And the format problems will all be sorted out by calibre when the time comes
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