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View Poll Results: How should we spell "ebook"? | |||
ebook | 56 | 50.00% | |
e-book | 25 | 22.32% | |
eBook | 31 | 27.68% | |
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03-10-2008, 04:21 PM | #16 |
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When I am reading what someone else has typed, I do have no problem with reading ebook, pbook, eBook, or pBook. it is when it's Ebook or Pbook that is it becomes a small bother.
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03-10-2008, 04:43 PM | #17 |
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03-10-2008, 04:50 PM | #18 |
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I prefer to read ebooks on my liseuse. The other sort I call "legacy books" or pbooks.
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03-10-2008, 05:19 PM | #19 |
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03-11-2008, 06:10 AM | #20 | |
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But I'm not a native speaker / writer, though.. come to think of it.. a programmer.. So it should be eBook and pBook but I'm used to p-book and I can't distinguish the sound .. Dirk Last edited by DigiDirk; 03-11-2008 at 06:13 AM. Reason: Forgot my eBook preference... |
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03-11-2008, 05:21 PM | #21 |
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According to Zelda it's also the preferred French term for the "electronic device for displaying ebooks", at least over in the name your device thread. I don't actually know, one of my ambitions is to never visit France.
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Actually Zelda and her relations are trying to instate the name as a standard for ebook reading devices in French. This word already exists with five different definitions, none of which resembles anything to do with electrons. I think they're going overboard with this, but that's my two bits.
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03-11-2008, 06:50 PM | #23 |
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Why would a person endeavour to not visit the seat of civility, culture, and really good food?
Merthinks that such a person must not like freedom or democracy. Yvan: what are the other meanings of 'liseuse?' Personally, I think that the device used to read digital texts should itself be called an "ebook," but I think that I stand in the minority on that account. |
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ebook -- 26 -- 60.47% e-book -- 8 -- 18.60% eBook -- 9 -- 20.93% |
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Your calling the devices 'ebooks' has some history behind. I vividly remember the first devices being called that way. I only changed my way of calling them that when joining MR. |
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03-11-2008, 10:32 PM | #28 |
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Given my druthers, the device--that is, a dedicated, or at least faithful with perhaps an occasionally wandering glance, device made for displaying primarily text and static images--would be an ebook, or an electronic book onibus-alacious compenditor.
Further, I refer to the documents that we avid simians view and turn the squiggles therein to abstract concepts as "digital texts." Besides providing clarity (if not concision), by utilising such a phrase, am removing the power that the publishing hegemony has over the reader as a subject by redefining the object in the relationship. That is to say, I really do not care about the delivery system of the file or ideas therein, so I attempt to distance myself from referring to the electronic file as a 'book.' This is especially important when one considers that not every file is an actual novel or reference work, and could comprise merely a short story or whathaveyou. There's quite a bit of whathaveyou flying about the interwebs these days. @Yvan: a knife to read books? Thought that all the cellulose-devotees were big on preserving books. ;-) Interesting to note that a word relating to reading can have so many connotations. |
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Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:U...k_p1190369.jpg, and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#Bookbinding |
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It's much too late now, but maybe the text itself should be called an "etext" and a dedicated device for displaying it (as opposed to a general purpose computer) should be an "ebook". What a rats' nests is English usage!
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