[QUOTE=Robertb;372063]Dear Mobelby:
> Hello Mister Robertb sir
>
> I still read all those msg here in Paris Fr. And it's very interessing
> Keeping in mind that I have only one experience here is my modest
> opinion about the B.readers.
> - Coming first : The "absolute objective" of a book, numeric or not, is
> to be read.
> And there is a monumental difference between the people who listen to
> music, those who look to images and those who read.
> The category one and category two can listen, look and make something
> else (like danse or sing ) in the same time.
> The third category WANT and CAN ONLY READ and nothing else.
>
> Starting from this point of view what do we need ?
>
> 1 - Pages as close as possible of "real books"
> Well, this, I think we have...At least with the one I use.
> BUT ....the first upgrading would concern the typography or the
> disposition of the text in the page. Mainly when you change the size of
> caracters (A of book's lover has not always good eyes)
> See the following msg (Which I did not understant completly but seems to
> accept my point of view) ....
> Quote
> "Considering the state of hyphenation on the current crop of readers,
> the majority of them should've been defaulted to left justification. And
> yet *TeX (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX)* solved the problem of full
> justification on electronic devices back in 1989, a freely available
> library of code to handle sophisticated hyphenation, smart hyphenation
> paragraph by paragraph rather than line by line, and micro-adjustments
> of both word and character spacing, creating readable paragraphs that
> rivaled classic typesetting."
> 2 - A screen a little wider (15 MM maybe)
> 3- A direct access to all books.....and here, in Europe, it means
> "WI-Fi : Is that the case with the Amazon's device ?
>
> And many thanks for your mail
>
> JD