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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Since some one amongst us suggests that format changes should not necessarily prompt new terms for existing things, perhaps we should call them scrolls or maybe tablets, whether they are in digital, paper, or other form. Or maybe "scratchings in dirt". Hey, did you see that Amazon now has over 120,000 scratchings in dirt available for the Kindle?
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I love 'scroll'! Since that word is rarely in use we should give it an other chance.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I don't think the discussion is what to call the digital files... but what to call the device which you use to view them. I agree the files should be called ebooks.
I usually call the device a "reader" or "ebook reader"... but never an eReader since that is the name of the once called Palm Doc format. Although you can usually tell from the context whether someone meant ereader the file format or ereader a device that you use to read ebooks.
BOb
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I still don't like the prefix 'e'. A book is a book, an organized text. And a machine to read, being, electronic, nuclear or intracranial should be called a
book processor. Wouldn't it be logical that its name followed that of the software that created it?