Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
I've been reading primarily ebooks for so long (about 30 years now), that in all honesty I struggle to remember what my reading habits were before I started doing so. I started out with books from PG, but even many of my commercial ebooks are approaching 20 years old!
You're right, though - ebooks makes it a lot easier to read series in order, which is exactly what I generally do.
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30 years? 30 years ago you could read the text faster than it would download!
I can imagine you now...
Code:
miniterm
atx4
atdt 555-5555
TS> connect unixhost
$ ftp
ftp> open mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
Connected to mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
220 FTP server ready.
User (domain.name:(none)): ftp
331 Password required for user-name
Password: ftp
230 User user-name logged in.
ftp
ftp> ascii
200 Type set to A.
ftp> cd etext
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get PG000.TXT
200 PORT command successful.
150 ASCII data connection for PG000.TXT (128.174.68.206,3134) (2881 bytes).
226 ASCII Transfer complete.
local: PG000.TXT remote: PG000.TXT
2939 bytes received in 0.066 seconds (43 Kbytes/s)
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
$ cat PG000.TXT
<...300 bps text scrolls by, as HarryT reads it at a real-time 300 bps rate...>