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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's not narrow. I think it's the way it should be. eReader has a meaning and to try to give it yet another meaning, that's wrong. Let eReader have the meaning that it means and use other words/phrases to say what you mean. Less confusion that way for sure.
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I think it's the way it should be.
Thinking it should be that way doesn't necessarily make it reality.
I like the term eReader for the devices, and have personally never been confused given the context of the term (either referring to a format eBook or a device). But I can understand how others may be confused, especially with the variety of formats out there.
There seems to be some room for confusion in your adopted standard of using the term "readers" in general and Reader for Sony. And it would seem that under this guideline one could adopt e-Reader or e-reader as an acceptable term because it is different from eReader (hence removing confusion)?
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Originally Posted by kennyc
well we all know that "ebook reader" is the accepted term.  |
Really? (I saw the sarcasm)
But I agree it's descriptive, succinct, and accurate. The only problem will be, however incorrectly, the natural tendency to use a shorthand, which becomes quite obviously and even more succinctly "eReader" (or e-reader, e-Reader, etc.)?
I guess if e-Reader (or e-reader or eReader) ever becomes a "standard" and "accepted" term, we'll then have endless arguments about whether it's short for "eBook Reader" or "Electronic Reader" (as in the "e" in e-mail)...