Yeah, the bait-and-response is over, OP. I learned my lesson.
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But do you realize that you have edited every single one of your posts in this thread? It is a little disconcerting when I read your post, hit reply, and see a slightly different post between the quotes than the one that I just read.
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Yes, I do realize that nearly all of my posts are revised -- and not just on this thread. It doesn't mean anything other than that I'm anal about style (and always have been).
Besides which, your comparison of my extensive editing to the dishonesty of bandwidth stealing seems totally false. On the one hand, you have an innocent act of revision that doesn't hurt anyone and is intended to improve the experience of reading the post. On the other, you have someone who's creating massive pseudo-traffic for someone else, which can pose problems (and even shut-downs) for the site owner. Not exactly parallel situations. Besides which, people revise their writing all the time with no motive but to improve it.
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And on the point that you were making in the initial post, the things that are lacking in today's ereaders, might be improved with a future update. I don't think that anybody would say that the note taking options are perfect, but there are advantages over handwritten ones.
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Luckily, that subject dovetails into the OP's last question and returns us to the thread's topic.
The whole paper-versus-eReader interpretation had nothing to do with my idea. I was actually lobbying for an improved backup system and thinking about Sony readers specifically, since I own a few and the post by the college student was so sad. We can all empathize with someone who loses everything at the very end of a project.
I once knew a producer who spent $200,000 recording tracks on an album and left the analog tapes in a cab. No system is perfect, but there has to be
some kind of backup. Hard copies aren't necessarily the answer either.
What I'd like to see is a backup system that saves (1) notes in their positions on the eBook's page, presumably as pictures, and (2) a plain text file of the notes. If that existed, the Wired writer's criticism about notes would be irrelevant.
It's difficult to make specific pronouncements about the eBooks because the formats and concept are in their relative infancy. Imagine how many things might have changed by the time virtually every book in print is also available as an eBook.