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DDHarriman · 06-07-2008, 07:13 PM

Hi manchiua

I think you have just pointed an outstanding situation (for me at least): the deterrent situation of a technology of 500 years (the concept of the modern book, in a tech point of view is so old as that - paper, ink letters and images, sequential pages, one special front and one back page, the book separated by chapters and one toc to let one “jump” to other parts of the story, etc… etc… etc…) into accessing content.

I must accept I have never viewed it by that point of view…

Anyway, as you so well have put it “I think we are talking about the same thing”, the key is always the “loosing in the story…”, when you will be able to reach that, you are using the correct stuff to access the content, hell… you will even do not notice it.

Going back to your first question: still no, the technology is always a mean to objective, no technology is going to help you loose yourself into the content - it will help you to loose yourself more, or in a different way, or sooner, or deeper, or… - but the attraction to the content is independent of the technology.
Exceptions are of course, the technology not existing turns the access impossible, like, if I’m blind and there is no audiobook published I do not have easy access to the story.

I really would love to ear you proving I’m wrong and that eBooks helped you to get that kick, really do. As, for me at least, books are one of the 5 best things in life.

06-07-2008, 07:13 PM	#12
DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	Hi manchiua I think you have just pointed an outstanding situation (for me at least): the deterrent situation of a technology of 500 years (the concept of the modern book, in a tech point of view is so old as that - paper, ink letters and images, sequential pages, one special front and one back page, the book separated by chapters and one toc to let one “jump” to other parts of the story, etc… etc… etc…) into accessing content. I must accept I have never viewed it by that point of view… Anyway, as you so well have put it “I think we are talking about the same thing”, the key is always the “loosing in the story…”, when you will be able to reach that, you are using the correct stuff to access the content, hell… you will even do not notice it. Going back to your first question: still no, the technology is always a mean to objective, no technology is going to help you loose yourself into the content - it will help you to loose yourself more, or in a different way, or sooner, or deeper, or… - but the attraction to the content is independent of the technology. Exceptions are of course, the technology not existing turns the access impossible, like, if I’m blind and there is no audiobook published I do not have easy access to the story. I really would love to ear you proving I’m wrong and that eBooks helped you to get that kick, really do. As, for me at least, books are one of the 5 best things in life.