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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Here people just call it 電子書 , electronic book(s). And that stands for both the readers and the books. People read more and more about it in the news these days, they see my Sony and almost everybody immediately recognizes it as a reader. I show them several Chinese books I have on my device and they love it. Though most feel the readers are still too expensive, I guess it is because they just go to the local bookstores and read the books there (sort of like a library without checking the books out). And there don't seem to be any websites for legal new books yet. But I read that will be coming soon.
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I know what people call the ebook devices now. You ignored my qualifier stating a device that is capable of more than just reading low quality books. I was merely willing to challenge the notion of the device as a simulated book...which is not an uncommon tendency at this stage. These things are still pretty poor books, and their saving grace will probably be diversified media.
Most people I show it to feign amazement at first, and then reveal disappointment once I explain it to them and show them the quirks and display problems. The things really aren't that good. Did you go see the proposed reader by 誠品 and 遠傳 some months back? More of the same, really. Still not particularly good, especially for Chinese if you want decent text quality. I always keep some Chinese books and typeface tests on mine just to show people.