let's get liseuse recognized as a real word

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

actually, "liseuse" has several definitions in french, one of which is "reading light". it also means a special reading desk, a jacket worn by women for reading in bed (yes, such specialised garments exist !), and a knife for cutting the pages of books (back in the days when they weren't cut when you bought them). it's also widely used in french blogs to mean a reading device, but this is obviously a more recent use of the word.

Is there any chance of a picture of this garment? Is it the same as a bed-jacket?
(I do a fair amount of reading in bed, so would like to know!)

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

nice ! although i don't see a link anywhere ?

It's on the talk page.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Is there any chance of a picture of this garment? Is it the same as a bed-jacket?
(I do a fair amount of reading in bed, so would like to know!)

i don't have one myself but i did a search for "liseuse patron" and found a few :
http://www.lestricotsde-louise.com/m...ricot/mm44.htm
(removed the image, sorry, it was really big !)

http://ghislaine.canalblog.com/archi...7/3368224.html


http://members.fortunecity.com/mylen...on/liseuse.htm


as you can see, they apparently can be in many different styles.

Originally Posted by Nate the great

It's on the talk page.

ha okay, i don't know where that is, i'll take a look. i notice that the word actually is cited in a french wikipedia artice for this use : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livre_électronique

L'expression livre électronique, (synonymes : livrel, ecolivrel, liseuse ou bouquineur) peut désigner plusieurs choses différentes :
un ouvrage dont les informations ont été numérisées et sont disponibles en tant que fichier informatique ;
un support électronique de ce texte numérisé, ce qui peut-être soit le support physique (CD, Carte électronique), soit le support logique, virtuel c'est-à-dire le fichier contenant le texte ;
différents appareils électroniques portables dont la spécialité est l'affichage de tels fichiers informatiques.

[FizzyWater]

Nyet.

[Patricia]

Thanks, Zelda. This looks like a bedjacket to me. But liseuse sounds nicer.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Patricia

Thanks, Zelda. This looks like a bedjacket to me. But liseuse sounds nicer.

i'll trust you on that, since i don't have a clear image in my head of a bedjacket, but that makes sense.

[zelda_pinwheel]

here are a few more supporting links :

http://www.irenedelse.com/tag/liseuses/

http://www.paperblog.fr/1693397/lect...2-sur-liseuse/

http://www.paperblog.fr/2012535/le-c...aisser-couler/

http://www.paperblog.fr/1764000/prem...liseuse-a-260/

http://blog.immateriel.fr/2009/05/12/liseuse-en-ligne/
(ironically, this article is about an online reading app, but still, it's close enough)

http://enmultitude.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/395/

http://enmultitude.wordpress.com/200...urner-la-page/

http://carnetsdepierre.wordpress.com...t-il-rentable/

[zelda_pinwheel]

and here are some discussions of the word in french, because actually the same question is raised there as well ("what do we call these things ?") :

http://www.irenedelse.com/2008/02/25...-en-numerique/
Irène Delse is a writer and member of MR.

http://www.archicampus.net/wordpress/?p=206

note also that both François Bon and Alain Pierrot (both very active in the ebook world, and Alain Pierrot has been to two of our paris meetups ) use "liseuse"

François Bon :
http://www.tierslivre.net/spip/spip.php?article1872

interview with Alain Pierrot (his blog is currently under construction http://www.apsed.com/blog/ )
http://lafeuille.homo-numericus.net/...n-pierrot.html

[Sweetpea]

Sorry, but I won't ever use the word lisuese for an ebook reading device. Impossible word to type and to pronounce. I'll stick with ereader.

[Juliette]

Liseuse all the way. It's direct (at least in English- euh, I have a liseuse, a woolen one, somewhere, and the name is the same) and better sounding that "dedicated reading device for electronical texts" or any acronym for it (DRD?). (After all paper books too are dedicating reading devices .)




(on the other hand when will we get e-ink bedjckets? I've seen an e-ink watch the other day, so why not.)

[GeoffC]

so all the ladies will now start reading their liseuses whilst wearing liseuses ....

[Sweetpea]

And what is wrong with ereader (as short from electronic reader)?

[Vesper]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

And what is wrong with ereader (as short from electronic reader)?

You mean apart from being name for a file format too?

DrS

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

And what is wrong with ereader (as short from electronic reader)?

nothing wrong as such, just that lieseuse sound a lot "sexier"

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Slite

nothing wrong as such, just that lieseuse sound a lot "sexier"

and with plenty of opportunity for mis-spelling ....