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Originally Posted by darylbrayman
I once (a long time ago) bought an encyclopedia Britanica for my Dell Axiom at a Staples on a SD card. It came in a nice package with all the details and the card had Encyclopedia Britanica and their symbol on it. I would have been more than happy to have received it as a present. The same way I would an ebook. If I wanted to, I could have shared the encyclopedia with whom ever I chose just by loaning/giving him the SD card, just like a real book. I remember I did try copying it and that it had some basic DRM. I didn't try very hard, it was more just in case I lost or damaged the original. I believe ebooks would do well in this style but would need to come in mutiple formats to make them useful.
Regards, Daryl
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It reminds me of when I first picked up one of those old clunky green-screen Nintendo GameBoys. I looked at the cartridge and thought, "holy crap, you could put books on these". I'm sure I'm not the only one to have thought of that. Having a physical container for the books, even if it's something simple like a gameboy cartridge or an sd card, definitely adds something to what I perceive as "value". I've considered taking old old SD cards with pitiful storage (8-32mb, what they used to bundle with some of my previous cameras), toss on a few custom books, and give them as minor gifts, possibly stuck inside a good paperback or hardcover book.
Those little SD cards are much nicer in the back of a paperback than a big ol' cd.