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Originally Posted by davidspitzer
If you are talking about highlighters on paper - then I don't feel that we can assume that that will translate directly to ebooks.
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It can work very much the same. Make a nice 10" or so tablet device (can be LCD--I don't have eyestrain issues or need super long battery life) with a nice touch screen with a stylus that works extremely well (better than past tablet PCs etc.) and lets you high light, write notes in the margins etc.
That's what it will take to get me to make the e-switch for academic books and scholarly journal articles. I MUST be able to mark them up so I NEVER have to read them again and can just skim highlights and notes in the margins. And it takes too much time to scan them, type up notes etc. Time is a premium in academia.
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Originally Posted by davidspitzer
In order to effect change there have to be a few brave and dedicated soles that are willing to blaze the way so that others will follow
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I've never been one of those. I wait for technology to do what I need and be at a price I consider reasonable. I don't wait as long as the Joe Six Packs, but I'm not a super early adopter either.
I got a used K1 when the K2 came out as I was able to get 1 for $200 and it does all I need in terms of replacing paperbacks/hardbacks/hassling with the library for books I just read a bit before sleeping every night and never touch again after finishing them.
For my work, I'll wait for a nice tablet device that does all I need. I don't feel any need to waste money on something that makes my work more difficult and wastes more of my precious time.
I care about the environment, but I do more than enough on that front with recycling aggressively, using re-usable shopping bags, using compact fluorescent light bulbs, living close to work. So I'm not going to go piss away money, and make my work more difficult, just to save some friggin' trees when there are no shortage of those and they're a renewable resource. And it's not like I'm chucking books and printouts in the garbage. They get kept, given away or recycled.
But in general, my life (and especially career related aspects) are focused on what is most efficient and most convenient. So it' would be pretty friggin' dumb to waste time and money on a crappy product that makes my work more difficult. If some treehuggers want to do it, they can knock themselves out. I'm not going to waste time and money on inferior methods of doing my work. If that means there is never an e-option, then I really couldn't care less. The paper method gives me really no problems whatsoever.