Thread: Can JK Rowling bring on e-book standardization?
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Old 07-27-2011, 10:32 AM   #99
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Originally Posted by Arrghus View Post
Amen to that. It's a shame that this thread has been hijacked by those wishing to reduce the discussion to intellectual posturing about whose chosen format is better than whose. Reminds me of the silly arguments kids used to have in school about why Nintendo was better than Sega or vice-versa.

I read on my device because I do NOT wish to replicate the book experience. Some people like the feel, the smell, and suchlike of a book. I don't. But that's fine, that's why we have consumer choice. I like being able to read one-handed, to be able to adjust the font size, to be able to prop my device up in its case on the table (or my chest) using its leg feature; I like not having to inhale a musty mildewy smell, to have to put up with poor printing on cheap paper, to have to hold down the page to stop it blowing in the wind... etc., etc..
If we took a poll, how many would say they are here specifically because of e-Ink? I suspect that number would be quite large; as I look at all the profiles of posters on this page, everyone save stonetools has an e-Ink device listed.

The very point of e-Ink is the paper-like experience that provides. That would be akin to "replicating the book experience" at the macro level, as it were. Interestingly, most discussions I read against e-Readers were people claiming they did not want to give up the book experience, not realizing two things: (a) how close to paper e-Ink is at replicating a book experience, and (b) how much better a good e-Reader is too, taking us beyond the pbook experience.

Okay, so there is something to be said for replicating the book experience. We can't just punt on that completely. At this point in the thread, maybe we've gotten in to the minutia, mired in it even, but that does not negate its importance.

In terms of the topic at hand, it's not just about picking a favorite format; it's about picking a universal format. It would behoove us if the powers that be chose the best, but choose they should, so we could be free from the device/store lock-in.

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