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Originally Posted by MarkRPenn
It could be a book edition of course 
OT (ish), I'd love it if someone could explain the appeal of browsing the internet on an iLiad? It just strikes me as a totally inappropriate device for the job, as it's slow, black and white, and difficult to enter text into.
I can see the appeal of the form factor, and can see that being black and white won't matter for some web pages, but beyond that is this a case of wanting to do it "because I can"?
I'm not knocking people for wanting it, just trying to understand why. This is also not the same as having internet access on the iLiad - that's fine for the appropriate use such as browsing and downloading content, but for general web browsing?
Mark |
I agreed to pay $100 more (+another 50 for the wireless router) to be able to browse the internet on this device. Of course, for most web pages this is awkward. But I'm a grad student and I read a lot from plato.stanford.edu or other online encyclopedias, which are mostly text. When you read a 40 page article that takes several hours, the computer screen is not a good choice. Printed paper is better, but I already have tooooo much of that. In this respect, the iLiad is ideal.