Cybook for a week and conversations with Pauline (from Bookeen)

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by nekokami

But you see, to get the proper experience, you need to have someone next to you in bed tossing and turning and asking how late you're planning on staying up reading.

This is the reason we need to get back nested quotes! I almost missed HarryT's sacrifice...

[HarryT]

I thought you'd be impressed by the lengths I'm willing to go to to further the cause of e-Books!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I thought you'd be impressed by the lengths I'm willing to go to to further the cause of e-Books!

now wait a minute, just how big a sacrifice do think that would be ????

[HarryT]

Well, perhaps not a terribly great one .

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I thought you'd be impressed by the lengths I'm willing to go to to further the cause of e-Books!

I just noticed that there's a potentially salacious reading of this remark. Since I almost never pick up on such things, I'm quite proud of myself. Even though I doubt HarryT intended the meaning I have thought of.

Maybe I should have kept this to myself. But what the heck, I doubt I've had a negative effect on the direction this thread was headed anyway....

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by nekokami

I just noticed that there's a potentially salacious reading of this remark. Since I almost never pick up on such things, I'm quite proud of myself. Even though I doubt HarryT intended the meaning I have thought of.

Maybe I should have kept this to myself. But what the heck, I doubt I've had a negative effect on the direction this thread was headed anyway....

so nothing struck you back here ?

[nekokami]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

so nothing struck you back here ?

Oh no, I got that as well. That's why I thought my mutterings couldn't hurt the thread's general direction. I guess I started it, though.

I'm sure sharing a hotel room with two twin beds with some appropriate relative would serve the testing purpose equally well, but maybe you should invite HarryT to Paris, just in case....

[zelda_pinwheel]

i don't know... i'm afraid he might exterminate me by accident.

(watch where you're pointing that thing !)

[HarryT]

I can be in Paris in about 90 minutes from where I live .

[nekokami]

Hm. Yes, I can see the problem. Plus, I'm not sure Daleks use beds.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I can be in Paris in about 90 minutes from where I live .

good heavens. that sounds like a threat to me !

[BKeeper]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i don't know... i'm afraid he might exterminate me by accident.

(watch where you're pointing that thing !)

Got a better one Zelda:

"ceci n'est pas une pipe..."

[Barcey]

“A Tale of Two Cybooks” by MobileRead

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of unutterable silliness, it was the night of backlit LCD’s, it was the daylight of Vizplex, it was the winter of vent and rant, it was the summer of oh happy day, it was the joy of public domain libraries, it was the despair of DRM...

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Barcey

“A Tale of Two Cybooks” by MobileRead

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of unutterable silliness, it was the night of backlit LCD’s, it was the daylight of Vizplex, it was the winter of vent and rant, it was the summer of oh happy day, it was the joy of public domain libraries, it was the despair of DRM...

quick somebody call alex : we should make this into the MR theme song. or at the least, a tagline on the home page or something.

[MaggieScratch]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Have you tried night-time reading with a small light yet? That's when I find the lower page contrast of eink gives me some trouble. If you don't normally have someone trying to sleep next to you when you read, go visit a cousin or something.

I would love an integrated light as well; but when I read in dim light (like my bedside lamp), I usually pop up the font size one or two iterations. It helps a great deal.

Zelda--this is great, do please keep adding your comments as you enjoy your semaine de la liseuse! (It IS la liseuse, isn't it? Not le? I always have trouble with my pronouns...) I lusted after an eBookwise for years, when I was too poor to buy one...I never realized how much bigger they were than the Cybook! For some reason I always thought them smaller, width- and length-wise. Not surprised the Cybook is thinner. I'm still kind of startled by the thinness of the Cybook when I take it out of the case. I agree with your comments on the navigation buttons--I think Amazon was inspired by the eBookwise's page up/page down buttons for the Kindle.