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Originally Posted by jęd
What I love about those stories in Slashdot is seeing how soon some geek pipes up about e-ink being bad because they love the feel/smell/taste of paper... That and the nay-sayers telling us "why it will fail"...  |
Yeah, slashdot seems to be an outpost for Luddites. In every slashdot story about electronic books at least one person says "yeah, but you can't use it in the tub" or "i'll miss the smell of paper".
I have paper books I use specifically for the beach or when I know I'll be leaving it unattended. I've been working on a Clive Cussler paper book for about a year now a chapter at a time. When I'm done I'll give it to the local library. You don't have to use use the electronic reader for every application.
There's a post on there now about how "Sony's eReader failed" and several about how the screen on the Readius is too small and needs to be larger than the Illiad screen to be usable. I'd happily trade my Sony device for the Readius with the smaller screen. I've read hundreds of books on my palm/pocket pc devices-- the portability was more important than screen size and I didn't miss extra words a bit (of course this is for fiction, not tech manuals). I can only read a few lines at once.