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Old 03-27-2011, 08:55 AM   #63
Jack Tingle
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The Life Cycle of Lexical Entities

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Originally Posted by Penforhire
...How about they fix the spelling and format errors we see in many e-books first?!

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Originally Posted by alecE View Post
Absolutely!

Possibly I'm being a grumpy old Luddite, but I *really like* reading simple, unadorned text which allows total freedom to my own imagination. So yes, maybe a limited market - kids' books being the obvious one. But why embed fixed additional content in the ebook when you could just link to the web?
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My gods! What a concept! We could invent a totally flexible way to link all kinds of things to everything else. It wouldn't be a text; it would be a ... a ... a HYPERtext!
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What? It's been done? And they tried enhanced books in the early zeroes? No one bought them, except for the encyclopedias? Huh.

Nevermind.

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