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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
@Chiron scriba: ???? Why are you so creeped out that some already are happy with their ereaders? And then you call us cave men? Not everyone is so enthusiastically happy with the convenience of paper books as you are . . ..
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Did I say that I loathe e-readers?
Don't get me wrong, were it true I wouldn't be here.
Yes, I like paper books, I spent a lifetime on them, I have a huge dusty messy collection of them, but that's no good reason not to complement them with a gadget that plays a similar role - after all the computer hasn't
replaced paper and pencil, it has just taken over their most bothersome functions (OK, to be honest about a 99.5%
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My point is rather that being fully satisfied with what you have doesn't encourage the development of better, handier, more convenient models - and Heaven knows that the current e-readers are far from perfect.
Yet the day they'll offer me an e-reader that has only advantages over the paper book without any drawback I'll certainly buy it, but rest assured that I won't ever stop thinking of how it could be further improved.
And once I'll be able to buy an e-gadget that fits in my pocket on which I can enjoy a collection of Van Gogh paintings in actual size, faithful colors and utmost detail, I'll probably still find something to mutter about. I'm just human, you know...
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Originally Posted by Meeera
I can do most of those things with mine!
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Now, what e-reader do you have? I'm here looking for something more decent than my primitive, sluggish and intolerably jeffbezosish Kindle 4...
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Originally Posted by rkomar
Where would you put the solar power collectors?
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All around the display, of course: it's just a matter of powering some slow CMOS circuitry that works every now and then, not a soldering iron
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
ebooks have full text search. Instant win right there.
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Point made, you're right
