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Originally Posted by tirsales
Oh yeah! A nice eReader for RPGs would be so nice  |
Yup, especially given the advantages the various features of PDF can bring to pen & paper RPGs. Given a good eReader and good index, tab and sort features in the PDFs I can see storing all the books for a particular game on a single 4Gb-8Gb SD card and then bringing them up, as needed, during the game. Good indexing would be necessary to allow for hitting the desired information in the fewest page refreshes, but it could work. Heck, the game I am working on takes up less than 4Gb on my hard drive and that includes all the documents, test versions in PDF, over 42Mb of just research material, tons of proto-documents, and every saved back-up (I save every version so as to have a continual record just in case (help curb version creep, etc).
Of course my main interest is to save my eyes a bit as after an hour or two doing work on the computer I need 15-30mins away from the monitors and that makes good time to read up on some old source material, wrack my brain for ideas, and take notes). I could also see an eBook reader taking place of the entire stack of books (aka, everything a GM needs except dice and maybe a GM screen) so as to be better in the field or at conventions where you can't just have a bookshelf or two full of books behind you (as I am wont to do when I GM).
One of my main goals in creating my own pen & paper RPG is to create a game that is easily portable and on minimal encumbrance ... something a soldier or a Boy Scout could easily take with them into the field and not be concerned about the weight and mass. Given the weights I keep hearing on these eReaders I see them being yet another weight-saving option.
I don't see soldiers taking them into the field quite yet, but the smaller paper-back sized eReaders could potentially be viable if they are down to at or below an Honor Harrington novel in size/weight. I can see a lot of usefulness in the smaller readers for carrying dozens if not hundreds of paperback formatted books on PDF, etc. (yup, I am a
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