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kennyc · 09-06-2009, 08:09 AM

After a few weeks of research and investigating ebook readers I settled on the Sony 505 and am loving it. Interestingly along the way it seems I've found that the ebook world is a mirror of the WWW.

What does that mean? It seems that the floodgates are open. There is no longer a gatekeeper. The WWW allows anyone to post - i.e. PUBLISH anything, right, wrong or indifferent. Wikipedia has run smack-dab into this and are now considering having gatekeepers (i.e. editors) for various pages/topics and not allowing anyone to post just anything without verification.

It seems there is a tremendous amount of trash out there in/on both the web and ebooks (free and/or non-free).

To me it seems the issue is to somehow navigate the flotsam and jetsam and avoid the chaff while finding the wheat.

I certainly don't have time to read the entire web, nor to read and evaluate every ebook that pops up. Seems to me the issue is how do we manage/find/evaluate what to read and avoid the garbage that can be thrown out there by every wanna-be author and publishing house such that we don't waste our time?

09-06-2009, 08:09 AM	#1
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,917 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Seperating the Wheat from the Chaff After a few weeks of research and investigating ebook readers I settled on the Sony 505 and am loving it. Interestingly along the way it seems I've found that the ebook world is a mirror of the WWW. What does that mean? It seems that the floodgates are open. There is no longer a gatekeeper. The WWW allows anyone to post - i.e. PUBLISH anything, right, wrong or indifferent. Wikipedia has run smack-dab into this and are now considering having gatekeepers (i.e. editors) for various pages/topics and not allowing anyone to post just anything without verification. It seems there is a tremendous amount of trash out there in/on both the web and ebooks (free and/or non-free). To me it seems the issue is to somehow navigate the flotsam and jetsam and avoid the chaff while finding the wheat. I certainly don't have time to read the entire web, nor to read and evaluate every ebook that pops up. Seems to me the issue is how do we manage/find/evaluate what to read and avoid the garbage that can be thrown out there by every wanna-be author and publishing house such that we don't waste our time?