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Old 09-13-2009, 05:32 AM   #151
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i still prefer book

and if one wants to be pedantic about that, then lets use ebook ....
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i still prefer book

and if one wants to be pedantic about that, then lets use ebook ....
"I loaded some books on my book."

"I'm reading a really good book on my ebook."

Books and ebooks are what one uses a liseuse to read.
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Old 09-13-2009, 05:38 AM   #153
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"I loaded some books on my book."

"I'm reading a really good book on my ebook."

Books and ebooks are what one uses a liseuse to read.
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Old 09-13-2009, 05:55 AM   #154
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Great. That's real mature. I'm going to go read a book on my



LISEUSE!!!!!
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Old 09-13-2009, 06:03 AM   #155
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...maturity comes with age and i'm sadly lacking in both ...
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Old 09-13-2009, 06:16 AM   #156
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Hum...

"I'm reading this ebook on my... LISEUSE! Oh lá lá!"

Sounds somewhat gay (in the "happy" sense).
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Old 09-13-2009, 06:18 AM   #157
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... and your liseuse is knitted, woven, crocheted, darned, hand-crafted or machined ?
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Old 09-13-2009, 06:27 AM   #158
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Hum...

"I'm reading this ebook on my... LISEUSE! Oh lá lá!"

Sounds somewhat gay (in the "happy" sense).

I love to read a book on my liseuse après-ski au naturel. It gives me such a joie de vivre.
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Old 09-13-2009, 06:29 AM   #159
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I love to read a book on my liseuse après-ski au naturel. It gives me such a joie de vivre.

confirming more and more the frenchness of the word ...
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Old 09-13-2009, 07:37 AM   #160
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Sorry, but I don't care for the word. E-Reader or E-Book works fine for me.
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Old 09-13-2009, 09:48 AM   #161
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A French word, no less?
The very idea recalls the old joke from Fawlty Towers:

"Pretentious? Moi?"
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Old 09-13-2009, 10:40 PM   #162
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A French word is fine, this doe not in any way relate to this totally english speaker.
It (for me) has nothing to do with Books or reading, and does not fall gently nor easily off my tounge and confused the three people I have talked to about it.

Ebook is my term of choice, as only thouse who are into it anyway would say "But isn't that a format?", the great unwashed understand it....
NB: This is MY opinion, based on my experience and is in no way meant to deride anyone or anything.
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"I loaded some books on my book."

"I'm reading a really good book on my ebook."

Books and ebooks are what one uses a liseuse to read.
To be honest I would say something more along these lines...

"I loaded some works on my book."

"I'm reading a really good novel on my ebook."

Because in my mind "book" really refers to the medium. The content itself is more accurately described as a novel, poem, short story, how-to manual, etc etc. "Works" is a catchall for these.
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To be honest I would say something more along these lines...

"I loaded some works on my book."

"I'm reading a really good novel on my ebook."

Because in my mind "book" really refers to the medium. The content itself is more accurately described as a novel, poem, short story, how-to manual, etc etc. "Works" is a catchall for these.
With all due respect, in average American parlance War and Peace is a book, not a work. I can't speak for the rest of the English-speaking world. My car is more accurately described as a sedan, but most people would just call it a car.
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With all due respect, in average American parlance, War and Peace is a book, not a work. I can't speak for the rest of the English-speaking world. My car is more accurately described as a sedan, but most people would just call it a car.
Well I'm an American myself, and I would certainly call War and Peace a novel. The traditional medium for it being a book.

A car is a vehicle with a motor and typically four wheels. Certainly a Sedan falls under that definition. A book is a collection of papers bound together at one end...
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