Thread: What do you think of the name "liseuse?"
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Old 09-25-2009, 10:08 AM   #97
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Originally Posted by Grauheim View Post
I don't like the parochial flavour of some of the responses here, but indeed in France I have never seen or heard "liseuse" used to describe an ebook reader. It really does seem to be a term that has been made up on this forum.

I wonder if there will ever be a simple generic term for these devices, though. We never got a good one for "MP3 Player", for example. And the terms "laptop" and "notebook" still seem to be competing as synonyms. My suspicion is that for now, the general public will refer to all ebook readers as a "Kindle" (and the rest of us will wince.) As for me, I seem to just call mine my "book".
Wouldn't "lecteur" - "reader" - be a more obvious French word to use?
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