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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
ebooks is already slang enough, is it not? It doesn't extend to nuance of magazines or other diverse media the way "e-reading" does, but it serves the pragmatic function more than adequately with far simpler phonological structure than almost all the more contrived terms that have been proposed. It also boasts broad acceptance as a loan term outside English, as well as establishment within both technical and nontechnical English fields.
Pretty much all of the forced attempts at new nomenclature for differentiated reading that we've seen here do nothing but highlight an individual's (or various individuals') desire to coin a phrase. It's not derived in a naturalistic sense, but rather one of contrived wit. It does not help that the logics behind such word choices yield no benefit to any social group. The paradigm shift just isn't substantial enough to demand it.
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yes yes, ebooks is fine, there is no need to replace that term. Fits perfectly. I think this professor guy is more interested in how e-literatuer on ebooks and e-info documents will be preserved for future generations, given all the different platforms .....AND.....what if one day the power grid goes out, what then? Kind of like sci fi questions but worth pondering. i would throw the word vaporpapers out. If vaporsphere makes any better semse i like that better, but I think it is also meaningless. Ethersphere already exists. And Electronic library is fine, or e-library. Thing is , what happens if the power goes out and if future devices cannot "read" what's been written before. Not being a tech expert, I don't know answers. But as a layman, would love to learn more frm you. Dish.