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Old 11-28-2008, 06:37 AM   #11
Argel
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Originally Posted by rjh View Post
In addition, you seem to be dealing with ebooks as a standalone format, without considering how it might integrate with other activities, for example using office software or (important to me) how ebooks integrate with web browsing. And yet you assume that using a PC is a prerequsite for ebook reading.
This is one of the crucial points for me, though I realize that it is difficult for publishers.

I don't simply want the right to read a text. This is supposed to be the information age and I want the text of my books to be information in the same way as other data on my system.

The reader is only one 'limb' of that system. I also want to be able to search and copy on my main PC, using the kind of office software around which most of my work revolves. In other words I want my books to become as much a part of my 'digital memory' as my other 'documents' - and as accessible.
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