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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Torrent sites. I'm pretty sure that that was where I first heard the term. You can find user manuals for almost anything. As they are usually pdf, I didn't realize that there are so many formats for ebooks until I went looking for information on readers. I also didn't really think of them as books.
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Interesting. Yes, you can find manuals for almost anything, and they'll be PDF files. The days are long past when hardware or software vendors included printed manuals - there's a PDF on the CD.
I found out about the format diversity early on, as I discovered I needed five different viewers on my PDA to handle all of the content - converted HTML, MobiPocket, eReader, PDF, Word/RTF, and several variants of plain text. The good part was that I could read pretty much anything. The bad part was that I had to remember what material was in what format, viewed by what program. I've been hoping the industry would converge on a single format ever since, but we aren't quite there.
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My first big expense was when I was still a bachelor student 5 years ago, and as my first laptop that brought the joy of not having to share the family desktop with my two brothers anymore. Since then, the only one that might be called a bad choice was the netbook, since it turns out that I prefer to carry around a bigger weight in order to look at a bigger screen (notice my choice of ereader). I still don't regret it, since I gave it to my mother after a year of less than occasional use, and she loves it.
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Okay. I passed on the earliest netbooks for the same reason - I wanted a larger screen. 7" would be fine for reading most books, but a netbook is a multi-function device, and 7" wasn't large enough for many of the other functions.
When I looked at the original ASUS eee, I wished for the same device in the form factor of the canceled Palm Foleo project, with a 10" screen. These days, it's a different issue: I want the 10" screen, but am fine with a flavor of Linux, and want the flash-drive. I don't need Windows or a 160GB internal micro hard drive. No one made exactly what I was looking for the last time I looked. I'm starting to thinks an Android based tablet with an external bluetooth keyboard might be the best solution.
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I also think that I will still buy pbooks, and I look forward to reading old classics, especially the books that I read when I was younger. Now I’ll read them in the original language.
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I will certainly still buy pbooks - too much of what I read isn't suitable for ebook publication, like "coffee table" volumes on art, architecture, and design.
You're welcome.
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Dennis